Add to ORKGPURNELL CarolynThe sensational past : how the enlightenment changed the way we use our sensesNew York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017, 302 p.ISBN 978-0-393-24937-8 MOND 841 Résumé éditeur : Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in h..
Presented at the International Conference on Sacred Music East and West: Enlightenment & Illumin...
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Historians now often write the history of nineteenth‐century science in terms of a move away from th...
Presented at the International Conference on Sacred Music East and West: Enlightenment & Illumin...
The term Enlightenment is used to refer to intellectual and social developments in the 18th century....
The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable sp...
Taking the German picture-encyclopedia Picture Book for Children (1790–1830) of Friedrich J. Bertuch...
This book attempts to interrogate the literary, artistic and cultural output of early modern England...
The ocular harpsichord was a notable cultural phenomenon of the European Enlightenment, but its prec...
Book synopsis: Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, H...
This article addresses the history of possession and preternatural interference through the l...
The privileging of a particular sense in the elaboration of a metaphysics is a well-known theme, and...
This issue brings together an exciting collection of essays that investigate the collaborative roles...
Ce numéro thématique, divisé en deux dossiers, s’intéresse à la question de la perception du XVIe au...
At the beginning of the 18th century a distinctly modern vision of life was emerging: by its close, ...
Interest in the senses has blossomed over the last decade, leading to numerous explorations of touch...
This article surveys the state of the field of sensory history. Thinking historically about the sens...
Historians now often write the history of nineteenth‐century science in terms of a move away from th...
Presented at the International Conference on Sacred Music East and West: Enlightenment & Illumin...
The term Enlightenment is used to refer to intellectual and social developments in the 18th century....
The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable sp...