"This volume was inspired by a conference held at University College London on 12th and 13th April 2014."--Page ix. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sensory perception in the medieval West : Introduction / Simon C. Thomson -- Heaven ahoy! Sensory perception in The seafarer / Richard North -- The sensory cost of remediation; or, Sniffing in the gutter of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts / Jonathan Wilcox -- The York mystery plays : exploring sound and hearing in medieval vernacular drama / Mariana Lopez -- Birds and words : aurality, semantics and species in Anglo-Saxon England / Eric Lacey -- "Whistle while you work" : scribal engagement with Old English poetic texts / Simon C. Thomson -- Doing things with words : language and perception in Old English riddles and charms / Victoria Symons -- Sight, sound, and the perception of the Anglo-Saxon liturgy in Exeter Book Riddles 48 and 59 / Francesca Brooks -- All that glitters : the role of pattern, reflection, and visual perception in early Anglo-Saxon art / Melissa Herman -- Taking out the eye of a one-eyed man and other hypothetical moments of sensory impairment in early medieval law / Patricia Skinner -- Dis-embodied cognition and sensory perception in Sólarljóo̊ / Pete Sandberg -- (Re-)Viewing "Iuxta Morem Romanorum" : considering perception, phenomenology, and Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical art and architecture / Meg Boulton -- Plant life in the Poetic Edda / Michael D.J. Bintley.
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