Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

Abstract

Series statement on jacket. 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. List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective -- PART I: CARNAL VISION -- Flesh -- The Eye of the Flesh -- PART II: PERSPECTIVA -- Scientific Visions -- The Optical Body -- PART III: REDEMPTION -- The Custody of the Eyes -- Ocular Communion -- Bibliography -- Index.