Sensory perception in the medieval West /

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Imprint:Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]
Description:vi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 34
Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 34.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11017891
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Other authors / contributors:Bintley, Michael D. J., editor.
Thomson, Simon C., editor.
ISBN:2503567142
9782503567143
Notes:"This volume was inspired by a conference held at University College London on 12th and 13th April 2014."--Page ix.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Sensory Perception in the Medieval West: Introduction
  • Heaven Ahoy! Sensory Perception in The Seafarer
  • The Sensory Cost of Remediation; or, Sniffing in the Gutter of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
  • The York Mystery Plays: Exploring Sound and Hearing in Medieval Vernacular Drama
  • Birds and Words: Aurality, Semantics and Species in Anglo-Saxon England
  • "Whistle While You Work": Scribal Engagement with Old English Poetic Texts
  • Doing Things with Words: Language and Perception in Old English Riddles and Charms
  • Sight, Sound, and the Perception of the Anglo-Saxon Liturgy in Exeter Book Riddles 48 and 59
  • All that Glitters: The Role of Pattern, Reflection, and Visual Perception in Early Anglo-Saxon Art
  • Taking Out the Eye of a One-Eyed Man and Other Hypothetical Moments of Sensory Impairment in Early Medieval Law
  • Dis-embodied Cognition and Sensory Perception in Sólarljóð
  • (Re-) Viewing "Iuxta Morem Romanorum": Considering Perception, Phenomenology, and Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Art and Architecture
  • Plant Life in the Poetic Edda
  • Index