Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages

David Carrillo-Rangel

ISBN 10: 3030260313 / ISBN 13: 9783030260316

Editore: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Aug 2021, 2021

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Codice articolo 9783030260316

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• Titolo: Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages
• Editore: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Aug 2021
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030260313
• ISBN 13: 9783030260316
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 210 L x 148 A x 17 P (millimetri) 210 millimetri di larghezza per 148 millimetri di altezza per 17 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 401 grammi

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Riassunto

This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the full significance of sensory religious experience in the Late Middle Ages be understood. Considering the centrality of the body to medieval society and Christianity, this collection explores a range of devotional practices, mainly relating to the Passion of Christ, and features manuscripts, works of devotional literature, art, woodcuts and judicial records. It brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to offer a variety of methodological approaches, in order to understand how touch was encoded, evoked and purposefully used. The book further considers how touch was related to the medieval theory of perception, examining its relation to the inner and outer senses through the eyes of visionaries, mystics, theologians and confessors, not only as praxis but from different theoretical points of view. While considered the most basic of spiritual experience, the chapters in this book highlight the all-pervasive presence of touch and the significance of ‘affective piety’ to Late Medieval Christians.

Chapter 3: Drama, Performance and Touch in the Medieval Convent and Beyond is Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com 

Informazioni sull?autore

David Carrillo-Rangel is a PhD Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. He co-edited the volume Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages (2017).

Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Pablo Acosta-García is a Marie Curie Fellow at Heinrich-Heine-Düsseldorf-University, Germany, with the project Late Medieval Visionary Women’s Impact in Early Modern Castilian Spiritual Tradition (WIMPACT).