Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

by S. Biernoff

Overview

This book 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333961209
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/02/2002
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

SUZANNAH BIERNOFF in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective PART I: CARNAL VISION Flesh The Eye of the Flesh PART II: PERSPECTIVA Scientific Visions The Optical Body PART III: REDEMPTION The Custody of the Eyes Ocular Communion Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

This is a book which should make us rethink our assumptions relating to the medieval body and ways of seeing.

H-France - Megan Cassidy-Welch

This is a book which should make us rethink our assumptions relating to the medieval body and ways of seeing.
— Megan Cassidy-Welch

H-France

'This is a book which should make us rethink our assumptions relating to the medieval body and ways of seeing.' - Megan Cassidy-Welch, H-France

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