Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe

Wietse de Boer, Ph.D. (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1995) is Professor of History at Miami University. Most of his publications are on the Italian Counter-Reformation, including The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan (Brill, 2001).Christine Göttler, Ph.D. (University of Zürich, 1991) is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern. Her main research interests concern the intersections of art, religion, and science in early modern Europe, particularly the Netherlands and Italy.Contributors include: Alfred Acres, Barbara Baert, Wietse de Boer, Andrew R. Casper, Sven Dupré, Iain Fenlon, Laura Giannetti, Christine Göttler, Jennifer R. Hammerschmidt, Joseph Imorde, Rachel King, Jennifer Rae McDermott, Walter S. Melion, Matthew Milner, Sarah Joan Moran, Yvonne Petry, and Klaus Pietschmann.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the Editors Notes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Sacred and the Senses in an Age of ReformWIETSE DE BOER and CHRISTINE GÖTTLERI. PATHWAYS TO THE DIVINE: VISIONInsinuating the Cross: Sight, Suggestion, and Self in Renaissance PaintingALFRED ACRESDisplay and Devotion: Exhibiting Icons and their Copies in Counter-Reformation ItalyANDREW R. CASPER ‘In sensus cadentem imaginem’: Varieties of the Spiritual Image in Theodoor Galle’s Life of Blessed Father Ignatius of Loyola of 1610WALTER S. MELIONII. PATHWAYS TO THE DIVINE: THE LOWER SENSES‘An Odour. A Taste. A Touch. Impossible To Describe’: Noli me tangere and the SensesBARBARA BAERT ‘The Beads with Which We Pray Are Made from It’: Devotional Ambers in Early Modern ItalyRACHEL KING‘The Melodie of Heaven’: Sermonizing The Open Ear In Early Modern EnglandJENNIFER RAE MCDERMOTTIII. SENSES AND AFFECTSBeyond Vision: The Impact of Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the CrossJENNIFER R. HAMMERSCHMIDT ‘A cui ne fece dono’: Art, Exchange, and Sensory Engagement in Anthony van Dyck’s Lamentation for the Antwerp Beguines SARAH JOAN MORAN Tasting God: The Sweetness of Crying in the Counter-ReformationJOSEPH IMORDEIV. THE SENSES CONTESTEDThe Sense of Hearing Politicized: Liturgical Polyphony and Political Ambition in Fifteenth-Century FlorenceKLAUS PIETSCHMANNOf Eels and Pears: A Sixteenth-Century Debate on Taste, Temperance, and the Pleasures of the SensesLAURA GIANNETTITo Captivate the Senses: Sensory Governance, Heresy, and Idolatry in Mid-Tudor England MATTHEW MILNERV. SENSORY ENVIRONMENTSPiazza San Marco: Theatre of the Senses, Market Place of the WorldIAIN FENLONA Neapolitan Heaven: The Sensory Universe of G.B. GiustinianiWIETSE DE BOER The Temptation of the Senses at the Sacro Monte di VaralloCHRISTINE GÖTTLER VI. SENSES, SCIENCE, AND THE SACREDVision, Medicine, and Magic: Bewitchment and Lovesicknessin Jacques Grevin’s Deux livres des venins (1568)YVONNE PETRYThe Return of the Species: Jesuit Responses to Kepler’s New Theory of ImagesSVEN DUPRÉIndex Nominum