In the Renaissance
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In the Renaissance
(A cultural history of the senses, v. 3)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-260) and index
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Description
We know the Renaissance as a key period in the history of Europe. It saw the development of court and urban cultures, witnessed the first global voyages of discovery and gave rise to the Reformation and Counter Reformation. It also started with the 'invention' of oil painting, linear perspective and moveable type, all visual technologies. Does that mean, as has been suggested, that the Renaissance stands for the 'ascendancy of the eye'? If so, then what happened to the sensory extremes which the famous Dutch historian Johan Huizinga still perceived in the 15th century? Did they simply disappear? Or is there another history to be told, a history of a surprising continuity, not only of the sense of hearing but also of the 'lower' senses - those of taste, smell and touch? And was the Renaissance not first and foremost a time of deep sensory anxiety? This volume, assembling nine outstanding specialists, seeks to answer these questions while offering a lively and 'sensational' portrait of the period.
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance presents essays on the following topics: the social life of the senses; urban sensations; the senses in the marketplace; the senses in religion; the senses in philosophy and science; medicine and the senses; the senses in literature; art and the senses; and sensory media.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Entering the Sensory Worlds of the Renaissance Herman Roodenburg (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
1. The Social Life of the Senses: Architecture, Food and Manners Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago, USA)
2. Urban Sensations: Attractive and Repulsive Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Sensory Knowledge in a Material World Evelyn Welch (Victoria & Albert Museum, UK)
4. The Senses in Religion: Towards the Reformation of the Senses Matthew Milner (McGill University, Canada)
5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From the Nobility of Sight to the
Materialism of Touch Danijela Kambaskovic (University of Western Australia) and Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent University, Belgium)
6. Medicine and the Senses: Physicians, Sensation, and the Soul Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, Canada)
7. The Senses in Literature: Renaissance Poetry and the Paradox of Perception Holly Dugan (George Washington University, USA)
8. Art and the Senses: Representation and Reception of Renaissance Sensations Francois Quiviger (Warburg Institute, UK)
9 Sensory Media: The Circular Links between Orality and Writing Federico Barbierato (University of Verona, Italy)
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