عنوان

Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages /

(Number (ISBN

033396120X

(Number (ISBN

9780333961209

Number

b761056

Title Proper

Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Suzannah Biernoff.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 248 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

[New Middle Ages]

Text of Note

Series statement on jacket.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.

Text of Note

"Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages traces the intersections between vision, knowledge and embodiment in the period around 1200. On this basis alone it fills a significant gap in the study of visual cultures - a subject of increasing interest to historians, artists and theorists. Recent accounts of Western ocularcentrism have stressed the distancing and objectifying features of modern ways of seeing and knowing; this book charts the terrain of a more intimate and complex visual history. By highlighting the foreignness of medieval ways of seeing - for example, the idea that sight involved a physical encounter comparable to touch - modern theories of vision and the gaze lose their claim to universality. Biernoff breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images; an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period."--Jacket.

Human body (Philosophy)-- History-- To 1500.

Human body-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Vision-- History-- To 1500.

Vision-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Human body (Philosophy)

Körper

Mensch

Vision.

Visuelle Wahrnehmung

Number

152.14

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Edition

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Book number

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Biernoff, Suzannah.

Date of Transaction

20201204204253.0

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[Book]

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