Rethinking the Medieval Senses - Heritage/ Fascination/Frames

Prologue vii STEPHEN G. NICHOLS Introduction. Erudite Fascinations and Cultural Energies: How Much Can We Know about the Medieval Senses? 1 HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT ONE Heritage 11 1 Seeing God: Augustine, Sensation, and the Mind's Eye 13 EUGENE VANCE 2 Common Sense: Greek, Arabic, Latin 30 DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN 3 Senses, Imagination, and Literature: Some Epistemological Considerations 51 GREGOR VOGT-SPIRA TWO Fascinations 73 4 The Critical Sense: Some Spanish Examples 75 MARINA BROWNLEE 5 The Place of the Senses 93 MICHEL ZINK 6 Seeing and Hearing in Ancient and Medieval Epiphany 102 RAINER WARNING THREE Hidden Energies 117 7 Perception, Cognition, and Volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera 119 JOACHIM K PER 8 Christian Sovereignty and Jewish Flesh 154 DAVID NIRENBERG 9 Paradoxes of the Senses 186 GABRIELLE M. SPIEGEL 10 Representation and Participation: Some Remarks on Medieval French Drama 194 ANDREAS KABLITZ 11 Blinding Sight: Some Observations on German Epics of the Thirteenth Century 206 JAN-DIRK M LER 12 Blinded Avengers: Making Sense of Invisibility in Courtly Epic and Legal Ritual 218 HILDEGARD ELISABETH KELLER FOUR Frames 263 13 Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval Spirituality 265 HEATHER WEBB 14 "The Pupil of Your Eye": Vision, Language, and Poetry in Thirteenth-Century Paris 286 STEPHEN G. NICHOLS Contributors 309 Index 315