Sensual and sensory experiences in the Middle Ages : on pleasure, fear, desire and pain /

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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 diff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muntaner i Alsina, Carme (Editor ), Carrillo-Rangel, David (Editor ), Nieto-Isabel, Delfi I. (Editor ), Castell Granados, Pau, 1984- (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Sensuality > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Senses and sensation > History > To1500.
Senses and sensation > Religious aspects > History.
Touch > History.
Perception > History.
Civilization, Medieval.
Middle Ages.
Sensualité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Toucher > Histoire.
Perception > Histoire.
Civilisation médiévale.
Moyen Âge.
History.
Religion: general.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
Perception.
Senses and sensation.
Senses and sensation > Religious aspects.
Touch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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