The Book of Hours and the Body

ISBN-13: 9780367504526 / Twarda / 2024 / 304 str.

USA) Lindquist Sherry C. M. (Western Illinois University

Opis

This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches—somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny—may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.

Spis treści

1. THE BOOK OF HOURS AND THE BODY: INTRODUCTION   2. SOMAESTHETICS: THE BOOK OF HOURS AS ELITE SELF-FASHIONING  3. POSTHUMANISM: TECHNOLOGIZING THE BOOK OF HOURS  4. THE UNCANNY:  IMMATERIAL MATTERS IN BOOKS OF HOURS

O autorze

Sherry C. M. Lindquist is Professor of Art History at Western Illinois University. Her publications include Agency Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol (Routledge); The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art (Routledge); and Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders (co-authored with Asa Mittman).