Sensual and sensory experiences in the Middle Ages : on pleasure, fear, desire and pain /
Where was the line between pleasure and irritation in the sensory overload caused by the sounds, colours, and smells of a medieval market? How could pain and suffering be relieved by hoping for, and desiring to experience, an intimate, almost familiar, contact with Christ? This volume shows the diff...
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Blood and pleasure in Christ: private devotion and mystical experience in late medieval franciscan Umbria / Pablo Acosta-García
- The experience of touching Christ: imitating the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene in high medieval biblical commentaries / Lydia Hayes
- "Un odor tan saboroso": for an olfactive interpretation of the Cantigas de Santa María / Ivo Elies
- Beyond economic spaces: smells, colours, flavours, and sounds in medieval markets and fairs in the county of Barcelona between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries / Maria Soler Sala
- The heavenly harem: sexual rewards in the path to God / Josep Suñé-Arce
- Ethical and moral barriers in Maimonides and Rabbienu Yonah ha-Gerondi's commentaries on the Pirkei Avot: Restrictions on the relationships between men and women in the Jewish communities of the middle ages / Albert Lizandra
- "I know nothing for sure, but I have heard it." The role of heresy and Fama in the witchcraft trials of 15th-century Catalonia / Pau Castell Granados
- Penitential and mystical senses: two paths for female devotion in the late middle ages / Sergi Sancho Fibla.