Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Carrillo-Rangel, David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Nieto-Isabel, Delfi I. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Acosta-García, Pablo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Europe-History-476-1492.; Religion-History.; Social history.; Literature-History and criticism.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Religion.; Social History.; Literary History.

This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the full significance of sensory religious experi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 A Clash of Theories: Discussing Late Medieval Devotional Perception, Pablo Acosta-García
• Part I Unbinding the body
• Chapter 2 Touching the Page and Touching the Heart: Manuscript Culture and Affective Devotion in Late Medieval Flemish Communities, Barbara Zimbalist
• Chapter 3 Drama, Performance and Touch in the Medieval Convent and Beyond, Olivia Robinson and Elisabeth Dutton
• Part II Wounding the Spiritual Self
• Chapter 4 Sacralising Perception: Rosary-Devotion and Tactile Experience of the Divine in Late Medieval Denmark, Mads Vedel Heilskov
• Chapter 5 Haptic prayer, Devotional Books and Practices of Perception, Laura Katrine Skinnebach
• Chapter 6 Skin Christ. On the Animation, Imitation, and Mediation of Living Skin and Touch in Late Medieval Contact Imagery, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen
• Part III Seizing Nothingness
• Chapter 7 The Making of Queer Visionary Discourses, David Carrillo-Rangel
• Chapter 8 Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation, Laura Saetveit Miles
• Chapter 9 ConTact. Tactile Experiences of the Sacred and the Divinity in the Middle Ages, Victoria Cirlot and Blanca Garí.