Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls

Sense Perceptions in Byzantium
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-88402-421-7
Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 224 mm x 288 mm, Gewicht: 1332 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

How does sense perception contribute to human cognition? How did the Byzantines understand that contribution? Byzantine culture in all its domains showed deep appreciation for sensory awareness and sensory experience. The senses were reckoned as modes of knowledge—intersecting realms both human and divine, bodily and spiritual, physical and intellectual.

Scholars have attended to aspects of sight and sound in Byzantine culture, but have generally left smell, taste, and touch undervalued and understudied. Through collected essays that redress the imbalance, the contributors explore how the Byzantines viewed the senses; how they envisaged sensory interactions within their world; and how they described, narrated, and represented the senses at work. The result is a fresh charting of the Byzantine sensorium as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mullett, Margaret

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook
Susan Ashbrook Harvey is Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History at Brown University.

Mullett, Margaret
Margaret Mullett is Professor of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at Queen’s University Belfast and Director of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University.