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Knowing bodies, passionate souls sense perceptions in Byzantium
Susan Ashbrook Harvey; Margaret Mullett
Washington, D.C. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2017
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Title:
Knowing bodies, passionate souls sense perceptions in Byzantium
Author:
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
;
Margaret Mullett
Subjects:
IMPÉRIO BIZANTINO -- HISTÓRIA -- VIDA COTIDIANA -- CONGRESSOS
;
SENTIDOS -- ASPECTOS RELIGIOSOS -- CONGRESSOS -- BIZÂNCIO
;
PERCEPÇÃO (FILOSOFIA) -- CONGRESSOS -- BIZÂNCIO
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Introduction / Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett -- SIGHT -- Sense lives of Byzantine things / Glenn Peers -- The materiality of sensation in the art of the later Middle Ages / Martina Bagnoli -- SOUND -- Perceptions of sound and sonic environments across the Byzantine acoustic horizon / Amy Papalexandrou -- Kalophonia and the phenomenon of embellishment in Byzantine psalmody / Spiro Antonopoulos -- Geographies of silence in late antiquity / Kim Haines-Eitzen -- SMELL -- Scent, sound, and the senses in Islamic gardens of al-Andalus / Dede Fairchild Ruggles -- The smell of time : olfactory associations with the past in pre-modern Greece / Felipe Rojas Silva and Valeria Segueekov -- Fragrant matter : the work of holy oil / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- TASTE -- Struggling with Romanos's Dagger of Taste / Thomas Arentzen -- Monks baking bread and salting fish : an archaeology of early monastic ascetic taste / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom -- TOUCH -- Byzantine Christianity and tactile piety (fourth-fifteenth centuries) / Beatrice Caseau -- A touch of violence : feeling pain, perceiving pain in Byzantium / Galina Tirnanic -- To touch or not to touch : erotic tactility in Byzantine literature / Ingela Nilsson -- THE SENSORIUM -- Virtual sensations and inner visions : words and the senses in late antiquity and Byzantium / Ruth Webb -- Bitter waters and dew of rest : senses and liturgy in early Byzantine Judaism / Laura Lieber -- The spiritual senses, monastic and theological / Marcus Plested
Byzantine culture was notably attuned to a cosmos of multiple dominions: material, bodily, intellectual, physical, spiritual, human, divine. Despite a prevailing discourse to the contrary, the Byzantine world found its bridges between domains most often in sensory modes of awareness. These different domains were concretely perceptible and were encountered daily amidst the mundane no less than the exalted. Icons, incense, music, sacred architecture, ritual activity; saints, imperial families, persons at prayer; hymnography, ascetical or mystical literature: in all of its cultural expressions, the Byzantines excelled in highlighting the intersections between human and divine realms through sensory engagement (whether positive or negative). Byzantinists have been slow to look at the operations of the senses in Byzantium, especially those of seeing, its relation to the other senses, and phenomenological approaches in general
More recently, work on smell and hearing has followed that on seeing, and yet the areas of taste and touch--the most universal and most necessary of the senses--are still largely uncharted. Nor has much been done to explore how Byzantines viewed the senses, or how they envisaged the sensory interactions with their world. A map of the connections between sense-perceptions and other processes (of perception, memory, visualization) in the Byzantine brain has still to be sketched out. How did the Byzantines describe, narrate, or represent the senses at work? It is hoped to further studies of how individual senses in Byzantium operated in the context of all the senses, and their place in Byzantine thought about perception and cognition. Recent work on dreaming, on memory, and on the emotions has made advances possible, and collaborative experiments between Byzantinists and neurological scientists open further approaches
The happy coincidence of this symposium with the upcoming Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, 'Sound and Scent in the Garden,' and a forthcoming exhibition at the Walters Art Museum on the five senses enables cross-cultural comparisons that include gardens in Islamic Spain, Hebrew hymnography, Syriac wine-poetry, Mediterranean ordure, and Romanesque and Gothic precious objects that were not just looked at but also touched, smelled, and heard. Architects, musicologists, art historians, archaeologists, philologists can all contribute approaches to the revelation of the Byzantine sensorium--From publisher's website
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Series:Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Creation Date:
2017
Format:
xi, 330 p il 29 cm.
Language:
English
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