Representation: Courtly Love as a Problem of Literary Sense-Representation 2015 (English)In: The Saturated Sensorium: Principles of Perception and Mediation in the Middle Ages / [ed] Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen, Henning Laugerud, Laura Katrine Skinnebach, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2015, p. 112-129Chapter in book (Refereed)

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Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2015. p. 112-129

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representation, medieval studies, chivalric literature

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General Literature Studies

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Humanities, Comparative literature

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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-32752Libris ID: 18222285ISBN: 9788771243130 (print)ISBN: 9788771249613 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-32752DiVA, id: diva2:704668

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The Middle Ages integrated the human senses and unified their media into a culture of saturated sensation. The saturated sensoriùm nurtured principles of perception and mediation permeated with paradox, intersensorial entanglement, and multimodal interchange. This book addresses medieval modes of multi- and intermediality in material as well as immaterial culture and cultural history. It exemplifies the sensory and multisensory experiences sustained by medieval religion, art, archaeology, architecture, literature, liturgy, music, monasticism, miracles, cult, piety, love, eating, drinking, cognition, recollection, and burial. It ponders over perceptual practices performed as ritual, devotion, consumption (sacred or secular), memory, sanctity (in persons or percepts), church environment, sacramental imagery, romantic representation, and word-image-song-dance remediation. It illuminates the intertwined and compound character of the five Aristotelian categories of visus (sight), auditus (hearing), tactus (touch), olfactus (smell), and gustus (taste), showing that there was indeed far more to the senses and to sense experience than this classical categorisation might suggest. It aims to saturate our sense of medieval mediation beyond established modern and classical categories of communication.

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