Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages

David Carrillo-Rangel is a PhD Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. He co-edited the volume Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages (2017). Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Pablo Acosta-García is a Marie Curie Fellow at Heinrich-Heine-Düsseldorf-University, Germany, with the project Late Medieval Visionary Women’s Impact in Early Modern Castilian Spiritual Tradition (WIMPACT).

• Chapter 1 A Clash of Theories: Discussing Late Medieval Devotional Perception, Pablo Acosta-García.- Part I Unbinding the body.- Chapter 2 Touching the Page and Touching the Heart: Manuscript Culture and Affective Devotion in Late Medieval Flemish Communities, Barbara Zimbalist.- Chapter 3 Drama, Performance and Touch in the Medieval Convent and Beyond, Olivia Robinson and Elisabeth Dutton.- Part II Wounding the Spiritual Self.- Chapter 4 Sacralising Perception: Rosary-Devotion and Tactile Experience of the Divine in Late Medieval Denmark, Mads Vedel Heilskov.- Chapter 5 Haptic prayer, Devotional Books and Practices of Perception, Laura Katrine Skinnebach.- Chapter 6 Skin Christ. On the Animation, Imitation, and Mediation of LivingSkin and Touch in Late Medieval Contact Imagery, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen.- Part III Seizing Nothingness.- Chapter 7 The Making of Queer Visionary Discourses, David Carrillo-Rangel.- Chapter 8 Queer Touch Between Holy Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Birgitta of Sweden, and the Visitation, Laura Saetveit Miles.- Chapter 9 ConTact. Tactile Experiences of the Sacred and the Divinity in the Middle Ages, Victoria Cirlot and Blanca Garí.