The five senses in medieval and early modern England / edited by Annette Kern-Stähler, Beatrix Busse, Wietse de Boer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

These essays offer a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period.

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Sensing and Understanding -- Chapter 1 Sight and Understanding: Visual Imagery asMetaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies -- Chapter 2 Coming to Past Senses: Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture -- Part 2 Vision and Its Distortion -- Chapter 3 Bleary Eyes: Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities -- Chapter 4 Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason: Robert Hooke's and Margaret Cavendish's Epistemologies of the Senses -- Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Vision in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- Part 3 The Perilous Senses -- Chapter 6 Strange Perceptions: Sensory Experience in the Old English "Marvels of the East" -- Chapter 7 The Perils of the Flesh: John Wyclif's Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses -- Chapter 8 The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost -- Part 4 The Multisensual -- Chapter 9 The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual -- Chapter 10 'Eate Not, Taste Not, Touch Not'. The Five Senses in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments -- Part 5 The Theatre as Sensory Experience -- Chapter 11 Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays -- Chapter 12 The Sensory Body in Shakespeare's Theatres -- Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods -- Index Nominum.

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