Of Eels and Pears: A Sixteenth-Century Debate on Taste, Temperance, and the Pleasures of the Senses

In: Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe
Author:
Laura Giannetti
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289–305
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004236653_013

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Series:  Intersections, Volume: 26
Cover Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe
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9789004236653
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2012
Preliminary Material
Introduction: The Sacred and the Senses in an Age of Reform
Insinuating the Cross: Sight, Suggestion, and Self in Renaissance Painting
Display and Devotion: Exhibiting Icons and Their Copies in Counter-Reformation Italy
‘In sensus cadentem imaginem’: Varieties of the Spiritual Image in Theodoor Galle’s Life of Blessed Father Ignatius of Loyola of 1610
‘An Odour. A Taste. A Touch. Impossible to Describe’: Noli me tangere and the Senses
‘The Beads with Which We Pray Are Made from It’: Devotional Ambers in Early Modern Italy
‘The Melodie of Heaven’: Sermonizing the Open Ear in Early Modern England
Beyond Vision: The Impact of Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross
‘A cui ne fece dono’: Art, Exchange, and Sensory Engagement in Anthony van Dyck’s Lamentation for the Antwerp Beguines
Tasting God: The Sweetness of Crying in the Counter- Reformation
The Sense of Hearing Politicized: Liturgical Polyphony and Political Ambition in Fifteenth-Century Florence
To Captivate the Senses: Sensory Governance, Heresy, and Idolatry in Mid-Tudor England
Piazza San Marco: Theatre of the Senses, Market Place of the World
A Neapolitan Heaven: The Sensory Universe of G.B. Giustiniani
The Temptation of the Senses at the Sacro Monte di Varallo
Vision, Medicine, and Magic: Bewitchment and Lovesickness in Jacques Grevin’s Deux livres des venins (1568)
The Return of the Species: Jesuit Responses to Kepler’s New Theory of Images
Index Nominum

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