The five senses in medieval and early modern England /
The five senses in medieval and early modern England /
edited by Annette Kern-Stahler, Beatrix Busse, Wietse de Boer.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
- Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, v. 44- 2016 1568-1181 ; .
- Intersections 44. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2016-II, ISBN: 9789004303881. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1 Sight and Understanding: Visual Imagery as Metaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies / 2 Coming to Past Senses: Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture / 3 Bleary Eyes: Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities / 4 Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason: Robert Hooke’s and Margaret Cavendish’s Epistemologies of the Senses / 5 Hierarchies of Vision in John Milton’s Paradise Lost / 6 Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English “Marvels of the East” / 7 The Perils of the Flesh: John Wyclif’s Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses / 8 The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost / 9 The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual / 10 ‘Eate Not, Taste Not, Touch Not’. The Five Senses in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments / 11 Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays / 12 The Sensory Body in Shakespeare’s Theatres / Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods / Index Nominum. Annette Kern-Stähler and Kathrin Scheuchzer -- Katherine Hindley -- Javier E. Díaz-Vera -- Beatrix Busse and Annette Kern-Stähler -- Virginia Richter -- Tobias Gabel -- Dieter Bitterli -- Sean A. Otto -- Jens Martin Gurr -- Richard G. Newhauser -- Kathrin Scheuchzer -- Rory G. Critten and Annette Kern-Stähler -- Farah Karim-Cooper -- Elizabeth Robertson --
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The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England. Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer
9789004315495
10.1163/9789004315495 DOI
2016008197
1100-1700
Senses and sensation in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
English literature--Early modern.
English literature--Middle English.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR275.S46 / F58 2016
820.9/3561
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / 1 Sight and Understanding: Visual Imagery as Metaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies / 2 Coming to Past Senses: Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture / 3 Bleary Eyes: Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities / 4 Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason: Robert Hooke’s and Margaret Cavendish’s Epistemologies of the Senses / 5 Hierarchies of Vision in John Milton’s Paradise Lost / 6 Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English “Marvels of the East” / 7 The Perils of the Flesh: John Wyclif’s Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses / 8 The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost / 9 The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual / 10 ‘Eate Not, Taste Not, Touch Not’. The Five Senses in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments / 11 Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays / 12 The Sensory Body in Shakespeare’s Theatres / Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods / Index Nominum. Annette Kern-Stähler and Kathrin Scheuchzer -- Katherine Hindley -- Javier E. Díaz-Vera -- Beatrix Busse and Annette Kern-Stähler -- Virginia Richter -- Tobias Gabel -- Dieter Bitterli -- Sean A. Otto -- Jens Martin Gurr -- Richard G. Newhauser -- Kathrin Scheuchzer -- Rory G. Critten and Annette Kern-Stähler -- Farah Karim-Cooper -- Elizabeth Robertson --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England. Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer
9789004315495
10.1163/9789004315495 DOI
2016008197
1100-1700
Senses and sensation in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
English literature--Early modern.
English literature--Middle English.
Senses and sensation in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR275.S46 / F58 2016
820.9/3561