Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages - Softcover

Chapter 1 A Clash of Theories: Discussing Late Medieval Devotional Perception, Pablo Acosta-García

Part I Unbinding the body

Chapter 2 Touching the Page and Touching the Heart: Manuscript Culture and Affective Devotion in Late Medieval Flemish Communities, Barbara Zimbalist

Chapter 3 Drama, Performance and Touch in the Medieval Convent and Beyond, Olivia Robinson and Elisabeth Dutton

Part II Wounding the Spiritual Self

Chapter 4 Sacralising Perception: Rosary-Devotion and Tactile Experience of the Divine in Late Medieval Denmark, Mads Vedel Heilskov

Chapter 5 Haptic prayer, Devotional Books and Practices of Perception, Laura Katrine Skinnebach

Chapter 6 Skin Christ. On the Animation, Imitation, and Mediation of Living Skin and Touch in Late Medieval Contact Imagery, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen

Part III Seizing Nothingness

Chapter 7 The Making of Queer Visionary Discourses, David Carrillo-Rangel

Chapter 8 Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation, Laura Saetveit Miles

Chapter 9 ConTact. Tactile Experiences of the Sacred and the Divinity in the Middle Ages, Victoria Cirlot and Blanca Garí