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The Deepest Sense : A Cultural History of Touch /
From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with e...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A place by the fire. The common touch
- A place by the fire
- The walled city
- Hard at work
- The rites of pleasure
- A touchable god. A tactile cosmology
- mystical touch
- Gestures of piety
- The cult of relics
- Corpus Christi
- Ordeals by fire
- Painful times. Suffering bodies and healing hands
- Blind touch
- Leprosy, the black death and the dancing mania
- The uses of pain
- The torments of hell
- Sorrow and compassion
- A woman's touch. Male and female bodies
- A women's touch
- Women's work
- Texts and textiles
- Mystical raptures and pain craft
- The witch's touch
- Animal skins. Animal bodies
- Animal companions
- Beasts, wild men, and slaves
- Animal souls
- Experimentation and the campaign against cruelty
- Tactile arts. The aesthetics of touch
- The feel of art
- Crafty ladies
- Touch in the museum
- The modern touch. Petrarch's vision
- The decline of sacred touch
- New sensory worlds
- The persistence of touch
- The finishing touch
- Sensations of a new age. The drill
- The school, the prison, and the museum
- The feel of the city
- The electric creed
- Touch at home
- The stuff of dreams.