The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England

These essays offer a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period.

About the author

Annette Kern-Stähler is Full Professor and Chair of Medieval English Studies at the University of Bern. She is particularly interested in the interrelations between material culture, sense perception and affect and in the uses and transformations of space in late medieval England.

Beatrix Busse, Ph.D. (2004), University of Heidelberg, is Full Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at that university. Her research interests include the history of English and historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, stylistics and language in urban spaces.

Wietse de Boer, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of History at Miami University (Ohio). His publications are focused on the Italian Counter-Reformation, most recently Space and Conversion in Global Perspective, co-edited with Giuseppe Marcocci, Aliocha Maldavsky and Ilaria Pavan.

Product details

• Authors: Beatrix Busse, Wietse de Boer, Annette Kern-Stähler
• Assisted by: Beatrix Busse (Editor), Wietse de Boer (Editor), Annette Kern-Stähler (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2016
• EAN: 9789004315488
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31548-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology