Sight, touch, and imagination in Byzantium / Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine

Englisch

Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2018

xvi, 401 Seiten

Includes bibliographical references and index

1-108-42474-0

978-1-108-42474-5

978-1-108-44089-9 paperback

Canʹt touch this

How sight is not touch

The medium of sight

The problem of tactility

The commonalities of the senses

Photios and the unfolding of perception

Has the mind seen?: the language of effluxes

Has it grasped?: apprehending the object

Has it visualized?, I: the grasp of the imagination

Has it visualized?, II: the problem of fantasy

Then it has effortlessly...: judgment and assent

Mediation, veneration, remediation

Medium and mediation

Tactility and veneration

Synaesthesia and remediation

Tempted to touch

*Byzantinisches Reich / Wahrnehmung / Vorstellung / Imagination

*Byzantinisches Reich / Wahrnehmung / Imagination / Tastwahrnehmung

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: B828.45

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 121.3509495 ; 121/.3509495

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. Revisiting scholarly assumptions about the tactility of sight in the Byzantine world, it demonstrates how the haptic language associated with vision referred to the cognitive actions of the viewer as they grasped sensory data in the mind in order to comprehend and produce working imaginations of objects for thought and memory. At stake is how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to delineate and cultivate the manner in which art and rhetoric was understood as mediating the realities they wished to convey. This would similarly come to contour how Byzantine religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the divine

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