Saturated Sensorium
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- ISBN 9788771243130
- Weight: 826g
- Dimensions: 175 x 300mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2014
- Publisher: Aarhus University Press
- Publication City/Country: DK
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Middle Ages integrated the human senses and unified their media into a culture of saturated sensation. The saturated sensorium nurtured principles of perception and mediation permeated with paradox, intersensorial entanglement, and multimodal interchange. This book addresses medieval modes of multi- and intermediality in material as well as immaterial culture and cultural history. It exemplifies the sensory and multisensory experiences sustained by medieval religion, art, archaeology, architecture, literature, liturgy, music, monasticism, miracles, cult, piety, love, eating, drinking, cognition, recollection, and burial. It ponders over perceptual practices performed as ritual, devotion, consumption (sacred or secular), memory, sanctity (in persons or percepts), church environment, sacramental imagery, romantic representation, and word-image-song-dance remediation. It illuminates the intertwined and compound character of the five Aristotelian categories of visus (sight), auditus (hearing), tactus (touch), olfactus (smell), and gustus (taste), showing that there was indeed far more to the senses and to sense experience than this classical categorisation might suggest.
It aims to saturate our sense of medieval mediation beyond established modern and classical categories of communication.
Henning Laugerud PhD (art) is Senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway. Laura Katrine Skinnebach has an MA in History and Communication from Roskilde University Centre in Denmark. She is currently a research-fellow at the University of Bergen, Bergen Museum, Norway.
