عنوان

Sight, touch, and imagination in Byzantium /

(Number (ISBN

1108344062

(Number (ISBN

1108667708

(Number (ISBN

9781108344067

(Number (ISBN

9781108667708

Erroneous ISBN

1108424740

Erroneous ISBN

1108440894

Erroneous ISBN

9781108424745

Erroneous ISBN

9781108440899

Title Proper

Sight, touch, and imagination in Byzantium /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine.

Edition Statement

1 [edition].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvi, 401 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

The medium of sight -- The problem of tactility -- The commonalities of the senses -- "Has the mind seen?": the language of effluxes -- "Has it grasped?": apprehending the object -- "Has it visualized?", I: the grasp of the imagination -- "Has it visualized?", II: the problem of fantasy -- "Then it has effortlessly ..." : judgment and assent -- Medium and mediation -- Tactility and veneration -- Synaesthesia and remediation.

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Text of Note

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. Revisiting scholarly assumptions about the tactility of sight in the Byzantine world, it demonstrates how the haptic language associated with vision referred to the cognitive actions of the viewer as they grasped sensory data in the mind in order to comprehend and produce working imaginations of objects for thought and memory. At stake is how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to delineate and cultivate the manner in which art and rhetoric was understood as mediating the realities they wished to convey. This would similarly come to contour how Byzantine religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the divine.

Title

Sight, touch, and imagination in Byzantium.

International Standard Book Number

9781108424745

Imagination (Philosophy)

Perception (Philosophy)-- History.

Touch-- Byzantine Empire.

Visual perception.

Imagination (Philosophy)

Perception (Philosophy)

PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.

Touch.

Visual perception.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire.

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PHI-- 004000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Betancourt, Roland

Date of Transaction

20200822150855.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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