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Sensation is the subject of a new, burgeoning field in the humanities. This volume examines its role in the religious transformations of early modern Europe. Sensation was not only central to the doctrinal disputes of the Reformation, but also critical in shaping new or reformed religious practices, thus differentiating the relations to the sacred in a fractured Christian world. In seventeen interdisciplinary contributions the book explores the intersections between religious experiences, on the one hand, and artistic, musical, literary, dietary and olfactory practices, on the other. Deployed in variable, often contested ways, the senses were essential pathways to the sacred. They articulated knowledge of the divine, triggered strong affective responses, served to discipline body and soul, and shaped sacred environments.
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Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Sacred and the Senses in an Age of Reform
WIETSE DE BOER and CHRISTINE GOTTLER
I. PATHWAYS TO THE DIVINE: VISION
Insinuating the Cross: Sight, Suggestion, and Self in Renaissance Painting
ALFRED ACRES
Display and Devotion: Exhibiting Icons and their Copies in Counter-Reformation Italy
ANDREW R. CASPER
'In sensus cadentem imaginem': Varieties of the Spiritual Image in Theodoor Galle's Life of Blessed Father Ignatius of Loyola of 1610
WALTER S. MELION
II. PATHWAYS TO THE DIVINE: THE LOWER SENSES
'An Odour. A Taste. A Touch. Impossible To Describe': Noli me tangere and the Senses
BARBARA BAERT
'The Beads with Which We Pray Are Made from It': Devotional Ambers in Early Modern Italy
RACHEL KING
'The Melodie of Heaven': Sermonizing The Open Ear In Early Modern England
JENNIFER RAE MCDERMOTT
III. SENSES AND AFFECTS
Beyond Vision: The Impact of Rogier van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross
JENNIFER R. HAMMERSCHMIDT
'A cui ne fece dono': Art, Exchange, and Sensory Engagement in Anthony van Dyck's Lamentation for the Antwerp Beguines
SARAH JOAN MORAN
Tasting God: The Sweetness of Crying in the Counter-Reformation
JOSEPH IMORDE
IV. THE SENSES CONTESTED
The Sense of Hearing Politicized: Liturgical Polyphony and Political Ambition in Fifteenth-Century Florence
KLAUS PIETSCHMANN
Of Eels and Pears: A Sixteenth-Century Debate on Taste, Temperance, and the Pleasures of the Senses
LAURA GIANNETTI
To Captivate the Senses: Sensory Governance, Heresy, and Idolatry in Mid-Tudor England
MATTHEW MILNER
V. SENSORY ENVIRONMENTS
Piazza San Marco: Theatre of the Senses, Market Place of the World
IAIN FENLON
A Neapolitan Heaven: The Sensory Universe of G.B. Giustiniani
WIETSE DE BOER
The Temptation of the Senses at the Sacro Monte di Varallo
CHRISTINE GOTTLER
VI. SENSES, SCIENCE, AND THE SACRED
Vision, Medicine, and Magic: Bewitchment and Lovesickness
in Jacques Grevin's Deux livres des venins (1568)
YVONNE PETRY
The Return of the Species: Jesuit Responses to Kepler's New Theory of Images
SVEN DUPRE
Index Nominum
