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010 $a 2005005788
020 $a1843831465 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)58432181
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035 $a(DLC) 2005005788
035 $a(NNC)5984141
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050 00 $aBF311$b.K6263 2005
082 00 $a121/.34/0940902$222
100 1 $aKleinschmidt, Harald,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84092384
245 10 $aPerception and action in medieval Europe /$cHarald Kleinschmidt.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bBoydell Press,$c2005.
300 $aviii, 198 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [146]-190) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tPerception and action : the genesis of their separation as concepts -- $gII.$tThe transformation of perception in the early eleventh century : dance historical records from the village of Kolbigk in East Saxony -- $gIII.$tImpacts from the environment : the perception of smell, touch and taste -- $gIV.$tImpacts on the environment : the rationality of action -- $gV.$tAesthetics and ethics : their separation as concepts.
520 1 $a"Can dancers and singers dance and sing for one year and one day without drinking, eating and sleeping? Can pictures be made to speak to their viewers? Can lavender purify the soul? The modern mind denies that such occurrences are possible and relegates to the fantastic middle ages reports that they happened." "In his new book Harald Kleinschmidt traces the logic of perception and action behind these and many other strange stories about the use of the five senses and the doings of people in medieval Europe. He argues that modern Western rationalism is peculiar in postulating an opposition between perceivers and the targets of their curiosity, actors and their environments, or, in general terms, subject and object." "He shows that medieval standards of perception and patterns of action rested on an interactionist logic according to which perceiving and acting persons conceived of their doings as correlated and mutually dependent." "He describes the perfectly rational logic behind these conceptions: and he demonstrates that the assumption of an opposition between subject and object resulted from fundamental changes of standards of perception and patterns of action that took place during the middle ages and prepared the ground for the emergence of the peculiar logic of modern Western rationalism."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPerception$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aAct (Philosophy)$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aCivilization, Medieval$xPsychological aspects.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005005788.html
852 00 $bglx$hBF311$i.K6263 2005