Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective......Page 12
PART I CARNAL VISION......Page 26
1 Flesh......Page 28
Disordered Bodies......Page 29
Medieval Dualism and the Denigration of the Flesh......Page 34
Body and Flesh in the Augustinian Tradition......Page 37
St Augustine\'s Wives: Body, Flesh and the Feminine......Page 42
The Shadow of Carnality: Bernard of Clairvaux\'s Allegories of the Flesh......Page 45
Blessed Bodies......Page 48
2 The Eye of the Flesh......Page 52
Original Sin and the Fall of Vision......Page 53
Ocular Erotica: Commentaries on the Sexuality of Sight......Page 57
The Wounding Gaze......Page 59
Ocular Chastity and the Vulnerable Eye......Page 64
Theorising the Medieval Gaze......Page 68
PART II PERSPECTIVA......Page 72
3 Scientific Visions......Page 74
Scientific Curiosity and the Legitimacy of Experimental Knowledge......Page 75
The Optical Abstractions of Robert Grosseteste......Page 78
Roger Bacon\'s Veridical Eye......Page 84
Picturing Vision: Bacon\'s Theory of Species......Page 85
The Perceptual Continuum......Page 92
4 The Optical Body......Page 96
Reciprocal Vision......Page 98
Vision and Distance......Page 99
The Disembodied Eye......Page 103
Seeing and Feeling......Page 106
Perceptual Conception......Page 110
Optical Desire and the Pleasures of Science......Page 114
PART III REDEMPTION......Page 120
5 The Custody of the Eyes......Page 122
Polarity and Analogy......Page 123
Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cloistered Gaze......Page 125
Distracting the Flesh: Augustine\'s Theory of Attention......Page 131
The Internal Sense as Censor......Page 133
The Transports of Analogy......Page 136
Sublimating Sensation and the Ocular Sublime......Page 139
6 Ocular Communion......Page 144
Imitatio Christi......Page 146
Ocular Communion......Page 151
The Man of Sorrows......Page 155
Carnal Mediations......Page 160
Interpenetration: the Perspective of the Flesh......Page 168
Rethinking Ocularcentrism......Page 173
Notes......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 234
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