Deepest Sense A Cultural History of Touch

Name: Deepest Sense A Cultural History of Touch
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ISBN: 9780252078590

ISBN-10: 0252078594

ISBN-13: 9780252078590

Edition: 2012

Authors: Constance Classen

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From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration.The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touchfleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity. This intimate and sensuous approach to history makes it possible to foreground the tactile foundations of Western culture--the ways in which feelings shaped society. Constance Classen explores a variety of tactile realms including the feel of the medieval city; the tactile appeal of relics; the social histories of…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgments


The Inside Story



A Place by The Fire


The Common Touch


A Place by the Fire


The Walled City


HardatWork


The Rites of Pleasure



A Touchable God


A Tactile Cosmology


Mystical Touch


Gestures of Piety


The Cult of Relics


Corpus Christi


Ordeals by Fire



Painful Times


Suffering Bodies and


Healing Hands


Blind Touch


Leprosy, the Black Death, and Dancing Mania


The Uses of Pain


The Torments of Hell


Sorrow and Compassion



a woman's touch


Male and Female Bodies


A Woman's Touch


Women's Work


Texts andTextiles


Mystical Raptures and Pain Craft


The Witch's Touch



Animal Skins


Animal Bodies


Animal Companions


Beasts, Wild Men, and Slaves


Animal Souls


Experimentation and the Campaign Against Cruelty



Tactile Arts


The Aesthetics of Touch


The Feel of Art


Crafty Ladies


Touch in the Museum



The Modern Touch


Petrarch's Vision


The Decline of SacredTouch


New Sensory Worlds


The Persistence of Touch


The Finishing Touch



Sensations of a New Age


The Drill


The School, the Prison, and the Museum


The Feel of the City


The Electric Creed


Touch at Home


The Stuff of Dreams


Bibliography


Index