Sensory Reflections

Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-11-056234-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 177 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Reihe: Sense, matter, and medium

This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. Our purpose in this volume is to draw the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of medieval literatures, languages, art his

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Fiona

Starkey, Kathryn

Griffiths, Fiona J.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Materielle Kultur

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Griffiths, Stanford University, California, USA; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, California, USA.

Fiona Griffiths and Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, California, USA.