The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
$15.00Sherry C. M. Lindquist
ISBNs: B0CTVPPB5X, 0367504529, 9780367504526, 978-0-367-50452-6,
978-0367504526, 978-0-367-50454-0, 978-0367504540, 9780367504540,
978-1-003-04990-6, 9781003049906, 9781003049906
English | 2024 | PDF | 273 Pages
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by
considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics,
posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and
postmodern terms of embodiment.
It takes as its point of
departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of
Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to
strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions,
and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their
kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative
pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies,
images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where
surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part
of our own visual culture.
In negotiating theoretical,
post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute
to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It
will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval
studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history
of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
