Sensory perception in the Medieval West
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Thomson, S. and Bintley, M. (ed.) 2016. Sensory perception in the Medieval West. Turnhout Brepols.
Editors | Thomson, S. and Bintley, M. |
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Abstract | An interdisciplinary exploration of the sensory experiences invited and explored by textual and material products of the medieval period. What was it like to experience the medieval world through one’s senses? Can we access those past sensory experiences, and use our senses to engage with the medieval world? How do texts, objects, spaces, manuscripts, and language itself explore, define, exploit, and control the senses of those who engage with them? This collection of essays seeks to explore these challenging questions. To do so is inevitably to take an interdisciplinary and context-focused approach. As a whole, this book develops understanding of how different fields speak to one another when they are focused on human experiences, whether of those who used our sources in the medieval period, or of those who seek to understand and to teach those sources today. Articles by leading researchers in their respective fields examine topics including: Old English terminology for the senses, effects of the digitisation of manuscripts on scholarship, Anglo-Saxon explorations of non-human senses, scribal sensory engagement with poetry, the control of sound in medieval drama, bird sounds and their implications for Anglo-Saxon sensory perception, how goldwork controls the viewing gaze, legalised sensory impairment, and the exploitation of the senses by poetry, architecture, and cult objects. |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Brepols |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
24 Mar 2016 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 22 Mar 2017 |
Place of publication | Turnhout |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/881x8/sensory-perception-in-the-medieval-west
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