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The senses and the English Reformation
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ISBN: 9780754666424 9781409424468 0754666425 1409424464 9781315553016 131701636X 1315553015 1317016351 1283015528 9786613015525 9781317016342 9781317016359 9781283015523 9781317016366 1317016343 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Challenging the assumption that medieval Catholicism was overly sensual, whilst Protestantism rejected any element of worship appealing to the eye, ear, or nose, this study asks fundamental questions about the relationship between religion and the senses. The book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation, the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world, looking at how, and to what degree,

Kulturelle reformation : Sinnformationen im Umbruch 1400-1600
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ISBN: 9783525354605 3525354606 Year: 1999 Volume: 145 Publisher: Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht,


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Accende lumen sensibus : la liturgia e i sensi del corpo
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ISBN: 9788873671145 8873671144 Year: 2010 Volume: 153 Publisher: Roma: CLV,


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Pygmalion's power : Romanesque sculpture, the senses, and religious experience
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ISBN: 9780271083452 027108345X 0271085207 Year: 2019 Publisher: Pennsylvania (PA): Pennsylvania state university press,

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"Explores how the distinctive formal and material qualities of a range of Romanesque sculpture types stimulated multisensory religious experiences. Emphasizes the power of these sculptures to "come alive" in ritual and produce emotional responses for Christians of the time"--


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Religion and the senses in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9789004236349 9789004236653 9004236341 9004236651 1283854465 Year: 2013 Volume: 26 Publisher: Leiden ;Boston Brill

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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.

Scenting salvation : ancient Christianity and the olfactory imagination
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ISBN: 9780520241473 0520241479 Year: 2006 Volume: 42 Publisher: Berkeley: University of California press,

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This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first - seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing devotional piety, in which the bodily senses were utilized as crucial instruments of human-divine interaction. Rich olfactory practices developed as part of this shift, with lavish uses of incense, holy oils, and other sacred scents. At the same time, Christians showed profound interest in what smells could mean. How could the experience of smell be construed in revelatory terms? What specifically could it convey? How and what could be known through smell? Scenting Salvation argues that ancient Christians used olfactory experience for purposes of a distinctive religious epistemology: formulating knowledge of the divine in order to yield, in turn, a particular human identity. Using a wide array of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources, Susan Ashbrook Harvey examines the ancient understanding of smell through religious rituals, liturgical practices, mystagogical commentaries, literary imagery, homiletic conventions; scientific, medical, and cosmological models; ascetic disciplines, theological discourse, and eschatological expectations. In the process, she argues for a richer appreciation of ancient notions of embodiment, and of the roles the body might serve in religion.


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L'intelligence d'un sens : odeurs miraculeuses et odorat dans l'Occident du haut Moyen Âge, Ve-VIIIe siècles
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ISBN: 9782503530994 2503530990 Year: 2009 Volume: 7 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Que peut-on vraiment lire dans les récits médiévaux relatant les émanations et les perceptions des ‘odeurs de sainteté’? Cette expression elle-même fut-elle jamais pleinement signifiante, non pas sublimée en une métaphore toute spirituelle, mais au contraire bien charnelle, et donc partie intégrante d’une culture ? Prenant pour point de départ les récits d’exhalaisons extraordinaires, cet ouvrage s’attache à reconstruire l’importance et la signification qu’ont pu revêtir odeurs et odorat en Europe occidentale, dans la culture et la pensée religieuses, voire même dans l’expérience des hommes et des femmes du haut Moyen Âge, période formatrice s’il en fut. S’appuyant sur un dépouillement systématique des récits hagiographiques, Martin Roch revalorise ces sources, souvent décriées, tout en les confrontant méticuleusement aux textes bibliques et patristiques, aux documents liturgiques, et même aux données archéologiques disponibles. En déplaçant le point de vue de l’odeur miraculeuse à sa perception et aux récits qui en sont faits, l’auteur se tient fermement sur le terrain de l’histoire, de ses sources et de ses méthodes, sans se priver pour autant de dialoguer avec les autres sciences humaines, ou encore la médecine, ou la psychologie. Il démontre ainsi que, par delà les formules littéraires, les approches superficiellement rationalistes ou les effets de mode, les odeurs extraordinaires peuvent être reconnues comme un authentique objet d’histoire.

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Philosophy and psychology of culture --- anno 500-799 --- Aromas --- Beschaving [Middeleeuwse ] --- Civilisation médiévale --- Civilization [Medieval ] --- Civilization [Medieval ]--History --- Europa--Beschaving--476-1492 --- Europe--Civilisation--476-1492 --- Europe--Civilization--476-1492 --- Fragrances --- Geuren --- Medieval civilization --- Middeleeuwen--Beschaving --- Middeleeuwen--Cultuur --- Middeleeuwse beschaving --- Middeleeuwse cultuur --- Middle Ages--Civilization --- Moyen-Age--Civilisation --- Odeuren --- Odeurs --- Odors --- Scents --- Substances odorantes --- Smell --- Senses and sensation --- Civilization, Medieval --- Odorat --- Sens et sensations --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Odors. --- 235.3*19 --- Hagiografie: varia --- 235.3*19 Hagiografie: varia --- Civilisation médiévale --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Perception --- Smells --- Sensory evaluation --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Olfaction --- Chemical senses --- Nose --- To 1500 --- Odours --- Smell - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500 --- Smell - Social aspects - History - To 1500 --- Senses and sensation - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500 --- Senses and sensation - Social aspects - History - To 1500 --- Odeur de sainteté --- Moyen âge

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