Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 1-13

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3. Carnal Vision

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Flesh

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 17-39

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   3. The Eye of the Flesh

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 41-59

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4. Perspectiva

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Scientific Visions

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 63-84

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   3. The Optical Body

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 85-107

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5. Redemption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The Custody of the Eyes

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 111-132

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   3. Ocular Communion

      • Suzannah Biernoff

      Pages 133-164

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6. Back Matter

   Pages 165-248

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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.

• art
• corpus
• culture
• dialogue
• history
• history of literature
• interdisciplinary
• knowledge
• Medieval Literature
• medieval period
• medieval texts
• Middle Ages
• science
• spirituality
• writing

'This is a book which should make us rethink our assumptions relating to the medieval body and ways of seeing.' - Megan Cassidy-Welch, H-France

SUZANNAH BIERNOFF in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London

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