Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

How does sense perception contribute to human cognition? How did the Byzantines understand that contribution? Byzantine culture in all its domains showed deep appreciation for sensory awareness and sensory experience. The senses were reckoned as modes of knowledge-intersecting realms both human and divine, bodily and spiritual, physical and intellectual.

Scholars have attended to aspects of sight and sound in Byzantine culture, but have generally left smell, taste, and touch undervalued and understudied. Through collected essays that redress the imbalance, the contributors explore how the Byzantines viewed the senses; how they envisaged sensory interactions within their world; and how they described, narrated, and represented the senses at work. The result is a fresh charting of the Byzantine sensorium as a whole.

Harvey, Susan Ashbrook: - Susan Ashbrook Harvey is Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History at Brown University.

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ISBN 13	9780884024217
ISBN 10	0884024210
Title	Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls
Author	Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Series	Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia And Colloquia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Year published	2017-10-30
Number of pages	342
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