Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

Ocular Desires

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Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

Ocular Desires

"Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages traces the intersections between vision, knowledge and embodiment in the period around 1200. On this basis alone it fills a significant gap in the study of visual cultures - a subject of increasing interest to historians, artists and theorists. Recent accounts of Western ocularcentrism have stressed the distancing and objectifying features of modern ways of seeing and knowing; this book charts the terrain of a more intimate and complex visual history.

By highlighting the foreignness of medieval ways of seeing - for example, the idea that sight involved a physical encounter comparable to touch - modern theories of vision and the gaze lose their claim to universality. Biernoff 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
264

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Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages
2002, Palgrave Macmillan
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Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Ocular Desires
September 14, 2002, Palgrave Macmillan
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Cover of: Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages
Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages
2002, Palgrave Macmillan
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First Sentence

"As idea and as substance, medieval flesh was by definition elusive."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
264
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Weight
15.2 ounces

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OL9399982M
Internet Archive
sightembodimentm00bier
ISBN 10
033396120X
ISBN 13
9780333961209
Library Thing
1132297
Goodreads
3938842

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