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Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages
S Biernoff
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Description for Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period.
This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349427222
SKU
V9781349427222
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99-15
About S Biernoff
SUZANNAH BIERNOFF in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London
Reviews for Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages
'This is a book which should make us rethink our assumptions relating to the medieval body and ways of seeing.' - Megan Cassidy-Welch, H-France