| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 187 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Blood and pleasure in Christ: private devotion and mystical experience in late medieval franciscan Umbria / Pablo Acosta-García -- The experience of touching Christ: imitating the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene in high medieval biblical commentaries / Lydia Hayes -- "Un odor tan saboroso": for an olfactive interpretation of the Cantigas de Santa María / Ivo Elies -- Beyond economic spaces: smells, colours, flavours, and sounds in medieval markets and fairs in the county of Barcelona between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries / Maria Soler Sala -- The heavenly harem: sexual rewards in the path to God / Josep Suñé-Arce -- Ethical and moral barriers in Maimonides and Rabbienu Yonah ha-Gerondi's commentaries on the Pirkei Avot: Restrictions on the relationships between men and women in the Jewish communities of the middle ages / Albert Lizandra -- "I know nothing for sure, but I have heard it." The role of heresy and Fama in the witchcraft trials of 15th-century Catalonia / Pau Castell Granados -- Penitential and mystical senses: two paths for female devotion in the late middle ages / Sergi Sancho Fibla |
| Summary |
Where was the line between pleasure and irritation in the sensory overload caused by the sounds, colours, and smells of a medieval market? How could pain and suffering be relieved by hoping for, and desiring to experience, an intimate, almost familiar, contact with Christ? This volume shows the different aspects of sensory experiences that medieval people conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices. The unifying theme here is how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in different--sometimes conflicting--combinations and settings: from the private space of the monas |
| Notes |
"This volume aims to show the different aspects of sensory experiences that medieval people conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices. The unifying theme of the volume is how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in different and sometimes conflicting combinations and settings."--Page 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-178) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sensuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Senses and sensation -- History -- To1500
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Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects -- History
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Touch -- History
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Perception -- History
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Middle Ages.
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History.
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Religion: general.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Sensuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Civilization, Medieval
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Middle Ages
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Perception
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Senses and sensation
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Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects
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Touch
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Muntaner i Alsina, Carme, editor
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Carrillo-Rangel, David, editor
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Nieto-Isabel, Delfi I., editor
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Castell Granados, Pau, 1984- contributor, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527512344 |
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1527512347 |
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