1st Edition
The Book of Hours and the Body Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
1. THE BOOK OF HOURS AND THE BODY: INTRODUCTION 2. SOMAESTHETICS: THE BOOK OF HOURS AS ELITE SELF-FASHIONING 3. POSTHUMANISM: TECHNOLOGIZING THE BOOK OF HOURS 4. THE UNCANNY: IMMATERIAL MATTERS IN BOOKS OF HOURS
Biography
Sherry C. M. Lindquist is Professor of Art History at Western Illinois University. Her publications include Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol (Routledge); The Meanings of Nudity in Medieval Art (Routledge); and Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders (co-authored with Asa Mittman).
"This book is a significant and original contribution to the study of body perceptions, gender, and identity formation through engagement with visual-cultural products in the premodern world."
-- CAA.reviews
" [...] an uncommonly interesting [...] book that in combining theory and practice provides a thoughtful model for ambitious theoretical art history applied to objects that have often proved immune to it."
-- Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
