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• catalog abstract ""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.".
• catalog contributor b12585736.
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective -- 1. Flesh -- Disordered Bodies -- Medieval Dualism and the Denigration of the Flesh -- Body and Flesh in the Augustinian Tradition -- St. Augustine's Wives: Body, Flesh and the Feminine -- The Shadow of Carnality: Bernard of Clairvaux's Allegories of the Flesh -- Blessed Bodies -- 2. The Eye of the Flesh -- Original Sin and the Fall of Vision -- Ocular Erotica: Commentaries on the Sexuality of Sight -- The Wounding Gaze -- Ocular Chastity and the Vulnerable Eye -- Theorising the Medieval Gaze -- 3. Scientific Visions -- Scientific Curiosity and the Legitimacy of Experimental Knowledge -- The Optical Abstractions of Robert Grosseteste -- Roger Bacon's Veridical Eye -- Picturing Vision: Bacon's Theory of Species -- The Perceptual Continuum -- 4. The Optical Body -- Reciprocal Vision -- Vision and Distance -- The Disembodied Eye -- Seeing and Feeling -- Perceptual Conception -- Optical Desire and the Pleasures of Science -- 5. The Custody of the Eyes -- Polarity and Analogy -- Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cloistered Gaze -- Distracting the Flesh: Augustine's Theory of Attention -- The Internal Sense as Censor -- The Transports of Analogy -- Sublimating Sensation and the Ocular Sublime -- 6. Ocular Communion -- Imitatio Christi -- Ocular Communion -- The Man of Sorrows -- Carnal Mediations -- Interpenetration: the Perspective of the Flesh -- Rethinking Ocularcentrism.".
• catalog extent "viii, 248 p. :".
• catalog identifier "033396120X".
• catalog isPartOf "New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))".
• catalog isPartOf "[New Middle Ages]".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
• catalog subject "152.14/09/02 21".
• catalog subject "BD214 .B54 2002".
• catalog subject "Cuerpo humano (Filosofía) Historia Hasta 1500.".
• catalog subject "Cuerpo humano Aspectos religiosos Cristianismo Historia de las doctrinas Edad Media, 600-1500.".
• catalog subject "Human body (Philosophy) History To 1500.".
• catalog subject "Human body Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
• catalog subject "Vision History To 1500.".
• catalog subject "Vision Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
• catalog subject "Visión Aspectos religiosos Cristianismo Historia de las doctrinas Edad Media, 600-1500.".
• catalog subject "Visión Historia Hasta 1500.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective -- 1. Flesh -- Disordered Bodies -- Medieval Dualism and the Denigration of the Flesh -- Body and Flesh in the Augustinian Tradition -- St. Augustine's Wives: Body, Flesh and the Feminine -- The Shadow of Carnality: Bernard of Clairvaux's Allegories of the Flesh -- Blessed Bodies -- 2. The Eye of the Flesh -- Original Sin and the Fall of Vision -- Ocular Erotica: Commentaries on the Sexuality of Sight -- The Wounding Gaze -- Ocular Chastity and the Vulnerable Eye -- Theorising the Medieval Gaze -- 3. Scientific Visions -- Scientific Curiosity and the Legitimacy of Experimental Knowledge -- The Optical Abstractions of Robert Grosseteste -- Roger Bacon's Veridical Eye -- Picturing Vision: Bacon's Theory of Species -- The Perceptual Continuum -- 4. The Optical Body -- Reciprocal Vision -- Vision and Distance -- The Disembodied Eye -- Seeing and Feeling -- Perceptual Conception -- Optical Desire and the Pleasures of Science -- 5. The Custody of the Eyes -- Polarity and Analogy -- Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cloistered Gaze -- Distracting the Flesh: Augustine's Theory of Attention -- The Internal Sense as Censor -- The Transports of Analogy -- Sublimating Sensation and the Ocular Sublime -- 6. Ocular Communion -- Imitatio Christi -- Ocular Communion -- The Man of Sorrows -- Carnal Mediations -- Interpenetration: the Perspective of the Flesh -- Rethinking Ocularcentrism.".
• catalog title "Sight and embodiment in the Middle Ages / Suzannah Biernoff.".
• catalog type "text".