Religion and the senses in early modern Europe / edited by Wietse de Boer and Christine Gottler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boer, Wietse de.

Göttler, Christine.

Series:

Intersections 26.

Intersections ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation in art--History.

Senses and sensation in art.

Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.

Senses and sensation.

Senses and sensation--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sensation is the subject of a burgeoning field in the humanities. This volume examines its role in the religious changes and transformations of early modern Europe. Sensation was not only central to the doctrinal disputes of the Reformation, but also critical in shaping new or reformed devotional practices. From this vantage point the book explores the intersections between the world of religion and the spheres of art, music, and literature; food and smell; sacred things and spaces; ritual and community; science and medicine. Deployed in varying, often contested ways, the senses were essential pathways to the sacred. They permitted knowledge of the divine and the universe, triggered affective responses, shaped holy environments, and served to heal, guide, or discipline body and soul. Contributors include Alfred Acres, Barbara Baert, Andrew R. Casper, Wietse de Boer, Sven Dupré, Iain Fenlon, Laura Giannetti, Christine Göttler, Jennifer R. Hammerschmidt, Joseph Imorde, Rachel King, Jennifer Rae McDermott, Walter S. Melion, Matthew Milner, Sarah Joan Moran, Yvonne Petry, and Klaus Pietschmann.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: The Sacred and the Senses in an Age of Reform / de Boer Wietse and Göttler Christine

Insinuating the Cross: Sight, Suggestion, and Self in Renaissance Painting / Alfred Acres

Display and Devotion: Exhibiting Icons and Their Copies in Counter-Reformation Italy / Andrew R. Casper

‘In sensus cadentem imaginem’: Varieties of the Spiritual Image in Theodoor Galle’s Life of Blessed Father Ignatius of Loyola of 1610 / Walter S. Melion

‘An Odour. A Taste. A Touch. Impossible to Describe’: Noli me tangere and the Senses / Barbara Baert

‘The Beads with Which We Pray Are Made from It’: Devotional Ambers in Early Modern Italy / Rachel King

‘The Melodie of Heaven’: Sermonizing the Open Ear in Early Modern England / Jennifer Rae McDermott

Beyond Vision: The Impact of Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross / Jennifer R. Hammerschmidt

‘A cui ne fece dono’: Art, Exchange, and Sensory Engagement in Anthony van Dyck’s Lamentation for the Antwerp Beguines / Sarah Joan Moran

Tasting God: The Sweetness of Crying in the Counter- Reformation / Joseph Imorde

The Sense of Hearing Politicized: Liturgical Polyphony and Political Ambition in Fifteenth-Century Florence / Klaus Pietschmann

Of Eels and Pears: A Sixteenth-Century Debate on Taste, Temperance, and the Pleasures of the Senses / Laura Giannetti

To Captivate the Senses: Sensory Governance, Heresy, and Idolatry in Mid-Tudor England / Matthew Milner

Piazza San Marco: Theatre of the Senses, Market Place of the World / Iain Fenlon

A Neapolitan Heaven: The Sensory Universe of G.B. Giustiniani / Wietse de Boer

The Temptation of the Senses at the Sacro Monte di Varallo / Christine Göttler

Vision, Medicine, and Magic: Bewitchment and Lovesickness in Jacques Grevin’s Deux livres des venins (1568) / Yvonne Petry

The Return of the Species: Jesuit Responses to Kepler’s New Theory of Images / Sven Dupré

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85446-5

90-04-23665-1

OCLC:

821180619

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004236653 DOI