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The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies.
Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England.
Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures
Annette Kern-Stähler and Kathrin Scheuchzer
PART ONE: SENSING AND UNDERSTANDING
Sight and Understanding. Visual Imagery as Metaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies
Katherine Hindley
Coming to Past Senses. Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture
Javier Enrique Díaz-Vera
PART TWO: VISION AND ITS DISTORTION
Bleary Eyes. Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities
Beatrix Busse and Annette Kern-Stähler
Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason. Robert Hooke's and Margaret Cavendish's Epistemologies of the Senses
Virginia Richter
Hierachies of Vision in John Milton's Paradise Lost
Tobias Gabel
PART THREE: THE PERILOUS SENSES
Strange Perceptions. Sensory Experience in the Old English "Marvels of the East"
Dieter Bitterli
The Perils of the Flesh. John Wyclif's Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses
Sean A. Otto
The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost
Jens Martin Gurr
PART FOUR: THE MULTISENSUAL
Multisensoriality and the Chaucerian Multisensual
Richard G. Newhauser
'Eate not, taste not, touch not'. The Five Senses in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments
Kathrin Scheuchzer
PART FIVE: THE THEATRE AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE
Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays
Rory G. Critten and Annette Kern-Stähler
The Sensory Body in Shakespeare's Theatres
Farah Karim-Cooper
Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
Elizabeth Robertson
Index Nominum
