Knowing bodies, passionate souls : sense perceptions in Byzantium /

"Byzantine culture was notably attuned to a cosmos of multiple dominions: material, bodily, intellectual, physical, spiritual, human, divine. Despite a prevailing discourse to the contrary, the Byzantine world found its bridges between domains most often in sensory modes of awareness. These dif...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook (επιμελήτρια.), Mullett, Margaret (επιμελήτρια.)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2017.
Σειρά:Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction / Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett
  • SIGHT
  • Sense lives of Byzantine things / Glenn Peers
  • The materiality of sensation in the art of the later Middle Ages / Martina Bagnoli
  • SOUND
  • Perceptions of sound and sonic environments across the Byzantine acoustic horizon / Amy Papalexandrou
  • Kalophonia and the phenomenon of embellishment in Byzantine psalmody / Spiro Antonopoulos
  • Geographies of silence in late antiquity / Kim Haines-Eitzen
  • SMELL
  • Scent, sound, and the senses in Islamic gardens of al-Andalus / Dede Fairchild Ruggles
  • The smell of time : olfactory associations with the past in pre-modern Greece / Felipe Rojas Silva and Valeria Segueekov
  • Fragrant matter : the work of holy oil / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • TASTE
  • Struggling with Romanos's "Dagger of Taste" / Thomas Arentzen
  • Monks baking bread and salting fish : an archaeology of early monastic ascetic taste / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
  • TOUCH
  • Byzantine Christianity and tactile piety (fourth-fifteenth centuries) / Beatrice Caseau
  • A touch of violence : feeling pain, perceiving pain in Byzantium / Galina Tirnanic
  • To touch or not to touch : erotic tactility in Byzantine literature / Ingela Nilsson
  • THE SENSORIUM
  • Virtual sensations and inner visions : words and the senses in late antiquity and Byzantium / Ruth Webb
  • Bitter waters and dew of rest : senses and liturgy in early Byzantine Judaism / Laura Lieber
  • The spiritual senses, monastic and theological / Marcus Plested.