A cultural history of the senses

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London : Bloomsbury, 2014

Subject:

Senses and sensation - History
Perception - History

Contributor:

Newhauser, Richard, editor
Howes, David
Vila, Anne C.
Roodenburg, Herman
Toner, J. P
Classen, Constance, editor

ISBN:

9780857853387, 0857853384, 9780857853394, 0857853392, 9780857853400, 0857853406, 9780857853417, 0857853414, 9780857853424, 0857853422, 9780857853431, 0857853430, 9780857853448, and 0857853449

Description:

6 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents:

Volume 1. In antiquity / edited by Jerry Toner -- Introduction : sensing the ancient past / Jerry Toner -- The social life of the senses : feasts and funerals / David Potter -- Urban sensations : opulence and ordure / Gregory S. Aldrete -- The senses in the marketplace : the luxury market and eastern trade in imperial Rome / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- The senses in religion : piety, critique, competition / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- The senses in philosophy and science : five conceptions from Heraclitus to Plato / Ashley Clements -- Medicine and the senses : humors, potions, and spells / Helen King and Jerry Toner -- The senses in literature : falling in love in an ancient Greek novel / Silvia Montiglio -- Art and the senses : the artistry of bodies, stages, and cities in the Greco-Roman world / Mark Bradley -- Sensory media : representation, communication, and performance in ancient literature / Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Volume 2. In the Middle Ages / edited by Richard G. Newhauser -- Introduction: The sensual middle ages / Richard G. Newhauser -- The social life of the senses: experiencing the self, others, and environments / Chris Woolgar -- Urban sensations: the medieval city imagined / Kathryn Reyerson -- The senses in the marketplace: markets, shops, and shopping in medieval towns / Martha Carlin -- The senses in religion: liturgy, devotion, and deprivation / Béatrice Caseau -- The senses in philosophy and science: mechanics of the body or activity of the soul? / Pekka Kärkkäinen -- Medicine and the senses: feeling the pulse, smelling the plague, and listening for the cure / Faith Wallis -- The senses in literature: the textures of perception / Vincent Gillespie -- Art and the senses: art and liturgy in the middle ages / Eric Palazzo -- Sensory media: from sounds to silence, sight to insight / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Volume 3. In the Renaissance / edited by Herman Roodenburg -- Introduction : entering the sensory worlds of the Renaissance / Herman Roodenburg -- The social life of the senses : architecture, food, and manners / Niall Atkinson -- Urban sensations : attractive and repulsive / Peter Burke -- The senses in the marketplace : sensory knowledge in a material world / Evelyn Welch -- The senses in religion : towards a reformation of the senses / Matthew Milner -- The senses in philosophy and science : from the nobility of sight to the materialism of touch / Danijela Kambaskovic and Charles T. Wolfe -- Medicine and the senses : physicians, sensation, and the soul / Stephen Pender -- The senses in literature : Renaissance poetry and the paradox of perception / Holly Dugan -- Art and the senses : representation and reception of Renaissance sensations / François Quiviger -- Sensory media : the circular links between orality and writing / Federico Barbierato, Volume 4. In the age of Enlightenment / edited by Anne C. Vila -- Introduction: Powers, pleasures, and perils of the senses in the enlightenment era / Anne C. Vila -- The social life of the senses: a new approach to eighteenth-century politics and public life / Sophia Rosenfeld -- Urban sensations: motion and commotion in eighteenth-century cities / Clare Brant -- The senses in the marketplace: coffee, chintz, and sofas / Joan DeJean -- The senses in religion: listening to God in the eighteenth century / Phyllis Mack -- The senses in philosophy and science: blindness and insight / Lissa Roberts -- Medicine and the senses: the perception of essences / Patrick Singy -- The senses in literature: pleasures of imagining in poetry and prose / Rowan Rose Boyson -- Art and the senses: experiencing the arts in the age of sensibility / Sarah Cohen and Downing A. Thomas -- Sensory media: communication and the enlightenment in the Atlantic world / Richard Cullen Rath, Volume 5. In the age of empire / edited by Constance Classen -- Introduction : the transformation of perception / Constance Classen -- The social life of the senses : the assaults and seductions of modernity / Kate Flint -- Urban sensations : the shifting sensescape of the city / Alain Corbin -- The senses in the marketplace : stimulation and distraction, gratification and control / Erika D. Rappaport -- The senses in religion : migrations of sacred and sensory values / David Morgan -- The senses in philosophy and science : from the senses to sensations / Robert Jütte -- The senses in medicine : seeing, hearing and smelling disease / David S. Barnes -- The senses in literature : industry and empire / Nicholas Daly -- Art and the senses : from the romantics to the futurists / Constance Classen -- Sensory media : the world without and the world within / Alison Griffiths, and Volume 6. In the modern age / edited by David Howes -- Introduction : {28}make it new!" reforming the senses / David Howes -- The social life of the senses : ordering and disordering the modern sensorium / Tim Edensor -- Urban sensations : a retrospective of multisensory drift / Alex Rhys-Taylor -- The senses in the marketplace : commercial aesthetics for a suburban age / Adam Mack -- The senses in religion : pluralism, technology and change / Isaac A. Weiner -- The senses in philosophy and science : from sensation to computation / Mathew Nudds -- Medicine and the senses : bodies, technologies and the empowerment of the patient / Anamaria Iosif Ross -- The senses in literature : from the modernist shock of sensation to postcolonial and virtual voices / Ralf Hertel -- Art and the senses : the avant-garde challenge to the visual arts / Hannah B. Higgins -- Sensory media : virtual worlds and the training of perception / Michael Bull

Summary:

"The Cultural History of the Senses set delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach which provides a broad understanding of the life of the senses from antiquity to the modern day. Each of the volumes explores 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. Superbly illustrated, this six-volume set is the most authoritative and comprehensive historical survey of the senses available."--Page 4 of cover

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