A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire The Cultural Histories Series

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"The Cultural History of the Senses set delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach which provides a broad understanding of the lif...

Optics Ethics and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

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Cultural History of the Senses

By David Howes, Jerry P. Toner, Constance Classen, Anne C. Vila, Richard G. Newhauser

This title delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach, which provides a broad understanding of the life of the senses from antiqui...

Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity

By Jerry P. Toner

Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages

By Richard G. Newhauser

Cultural History of the Senses in the Renaissance

By Herman Roodenburg

Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Enlightenment

By Anne C. Vila

A cultural history of the senses in the Modern Age 1920 2000

By David Howes

"In the twentieth century, many aspects of life became 'a matter of perception' in the wake of the multiplication of media, stylistic experimentation, and the rise of multiculturalism. Life sped up...

Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

By Carol Jamison, Susan Ridyard, Anne Walters Robertson, Richard G. Newhauser

Book of Nature and Humanity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By David Hawkes, Richard G. Newhauser