Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication/Epigraph -- List of Illustrations -- First Publication -- Copyrights -- Introduction or Thresholds 1 -- 1 Pentecost and the Senses: A Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript Tradition 11 -- 2 An Odour, a Taste, a Touch: Impossible to Describe: Noli me tangere and the Senses 36 -- 3 “Who Touched Me and My Clothes?” The Healing of the Woman with the Haemorrhage in Early Medieval Visual Culture 73 -- 4 The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, the Medium, and the Senses 131 -- 5 “When the Daughter Came in and Danced:” Revisiting Salome’s Dance in Medieval and Early Modern Iconology 169 -- 6 Wild Is the Wind: Pathosformel and Iconology of a Quintessence 221 -- Conclusions 256 -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

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Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture is an anthology of the most recent works by Barbara Baert, discussing the connection between the experiences of the senses in the medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the limits and possibilities of contemporary Art Sciences. The six chapters include Pentecost, Noli me tangere , the woman with an issue of blood, the Johannesschüssel , the dancing Salome, and the role of the wind. The reader is shown a medieval and early modern visual culture as a history of artistic solutions, as the fascinating approach between biblical texts, plastic imagination, and the art-scientific métier. This makes him a privileged guest in a unique in-between space where humans and their artistic expression can meet existentially.