Sensing Through Objects

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. List of Abbreviations IX
5. Contributor Biographies X
6. Sensing Through Objects 1
7. 1. The Songbook as Sensory Artifact 22
8. 2. Sensory Experiences of Low-Status Female Textile Workers in the Carolingian World 50
9. 3. Appealing to the Senses: Experiencing Adornment in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean 77
10. 4. Sensing Iconography: Ornamentation, Material, and Sensuousness in Early Anglo-Saxon Metalwork 97
11. 5. The Vessel as Garden: The “Alhambra Vases” and Sensory Perception in Nasrid Architecture 116
12. 6. Theatricality, Materiality, Relics: Reliquary Forms and the Sensational in Mosan Art 142
13. 7. The Wound’s Presence and Bodily Absence: Activating the Spiritual Senses in a Fourteenth-Century Manuscript 163
14. 8. Birds in Hand: Micro-books and the Devotional Experience 181
15. 9. Moved by Medicine: The Multisensory Experience of Handling Folding Almanacs 203
16. 10. “putten to ploughe”: Touching the Peasant Sensory Community 225
17. Reflections on Sensory Reflections: An Afterword 249
18. Index 259
19. Plates 265