Rethinking the medieval senses : heritage, fascinations, frames / edited by Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz, and Alison Calhoun.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

ix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Erudite fascinations and cultural energies : how much can we know about the medieval senses? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Seeing God : Augustine, sensation, and the mind's eye / Eugene Vance -- Common sense : Greek, Arabic, Latin / Daniel Heller-Roazen -- Senses, imagination, and literature : some epistemological considerations / Gregor Vogt-Spira -- The critical sense : some Spanish examples / Marina Brownlee -- The place of the senses / Michel Zink -- Seeing and hearing in ancient and medieval epiphany / Rainer Warning -- Perception, cognition, and volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera / Joachim Küpper -- Christian sovereignty and Jewish flesh / David Nirenberg -- Paradoxes of the senses / Gabrielle M. Spiegel -- Representation and participation : some remarks on medieval French drama / Andreas Kablitz -- Blinding sight : some observations on German epics of the thirteenth century / Jan-Dirk Müller -- Blinded avengers : making sense of invisibility in courtly epic and legal ritual / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller -- Cardiosensory impulses in late medieval spirituality / Heather Webb -- "The pupil of your eye" : vision, language, and poetry in thirteeth-century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols.

Includes bibliographical references and index.