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Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Ocular Desires
Suzannah Biernoff
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Description for Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Ocular Desires
Hardcover. .
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
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333961209
SKU
V9780333961209
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About Suzannah 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: Ocular Desires
'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