Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages [Hardcover]

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.List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective PART I: CARNAL VISION Flesh The Eye of the Flesh PART II: PERSPECTIVA Scientific Visions The Optical Body PART III: REDEMPTION The Custody of the Eyes Ocular Communion Bibliography Index

'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