1st Edition
Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe Entangling the Senses
Introduction: Entangled Senses—Putting Knowledge into Practice in Early Modern Europe
Marlene L. Eberhart and Jacob M. Baum
1. A Web of Sensation and the Performance of Memory: Dosso’s Lamenting Apollo
Marlene L. Eberhart
2. The Poet and the Ear: Aural Figurations in Sixteenth-Century French Poetry
Corinne Noirot
3. The Artist David Joris (1501-56): The Prophet of the Renewed Senses
Gary K. Waite
4. Abraham Scultetus and the God of Paste: Ritual Conflict and Sensuous Calvinism in the Second German Reformation
Jacob M. Baum
5. Shylock’s Senses: Entangled Phenomenologies of Difference on Early English Stages
Holly Dugan
6. Written on the Body: Selves, Communities, and the Sense of Pain in Early Modern England, 1600–1700
Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
7. Blinding Lights and Sensory Others in Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
Andrew Kettler
8. "Rather back to Ceylon than to Swabia": Global Sensory Experiences of Swabian Artisans in the Service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
Philip Hahn
Afterword: A Roundtable Discussion—Volume Contributors explore several key issues, established and emerging, in sensory history
Curated by Jacob M. Baum and Marlene L. Eberhart
Biography
Marlene L. Eberhart is Professor of Music at Vanier College, where she teaches music history and aural skills. She is the author of several articles on aural-visual-tactile intersections in art, literature, and public space, and is co-editor, with Paul Yachnin, of Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2015).
Jacob M. Baum is Associate Professor of History at Texas Tech University, where he researches and teaches later medieval and early modern European history. His first monograph, Reformation of the Senses, was published in 2019. His current research focuses on the history of deafness and disability in early modern Germany.
