The Saturated Sensorium is a book about the senses and their media in the Middle Ages: a book about what it meant to sense and perceive something. The book highlights the integrated and unified nature of medieval senses and media. It discusses the inter- and multi-mediality of cultic and cultural artefacts as well as the sensorial and inter-sensorial dimensions of a wide array of cultural concepts and practices within medieval religion, art, archaeology, architecture, literature, music, food, social life, ritual, devotion, cognition, and memory. These domains of sensory and media history are dealt with, not as isolated anthology articles in only loose connection with one another, but as coordinate and comparative chapters of a coherent book each covering a principal branch of the cultural history of the medieval senses. Across a number of academic disciplines, specialists address the interdisciplinary and compound character of visus (sight), auditus (hearing), tactus (touch), olfactus (smell) and gustus (taste), showing that there was far more to the senses and to sense experience than these five classical Aristotelian categories might suggest. A plentiful variety of sensory modes interacted, crossed, and permeated each other in mutually entangled and braided ways. The saturated sensorium nurtured the sacred and secular practices of mediation, representation, and consumption; the embodied and mental concepts of sanctity, memory, and imagery; the physical and spiritual spaces of environment, cult, and burial; the material and visual culture of sacraments, sensation, and incarnation.

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Brian 

Patrick 

McGuire, 

DPhil 

Oxon., 

was

an

Associate 

Professor 

in

the

Institute 

for

Greek 

and

Latin 

at

the

University 

of

Copenhagen 

(Denmark) 

between 

1975

and

1996, 

and

Professor 

of

Medieval 

History 

at

Roskilde 

University 

(Denmark) 

between 

1996

and

2012. 

Relevant 

publications 

include 

Con-

ﬂict 

and

Continuity 

at

Øm

Abbey

,

Copenhagen: 

Museum 

Tusculanum 

Press, 

1976; 

e 

Cistercians 

in

Denmark

,

Kalamazoo, 

MI:

Cistercian 

Publications, 

1982; 

Friendship 

and

Community: 

e 

Monastic 

Ex-

perience 

350–1250

,

Cistercian 

Publications, 

1988, 

Ithaca, 

NY:

Cornell 

University 

Press, 

2010; 

e 

Diﬃcult 

Saint: 

Bernard 

of

Clairvaux 

and

his

Tradition

,

Cistercian 

Publications, 

1991; 

Jean 

Gerson 

and

the

Last 

Medieval 

Reformation

,

Philadelphia, 

PA:

Penn 

State 

University 

Press, 

2005; 

Den

første 

europæer: 

Bernard 

af

Clairvaux

,

Frederiksberg: 

Alfa, 

2009; 

Det

kristne 

Europas 

fødsel: 

Sankt 

Bonifacius

,

Alfa, 

2014.

Nils 

Holger 

Petersen,

PhD, 

is

Associate 

Professor 

of

Church 

History 

in

the

Faculty 

of

eology 

at

the

University 

of

Copenhagen 

(Denmark). 

He

has

been 

leader 

of

the

Centre 

for

the

Study 

of

the

Cul-

tural 

Heritage 

of

Medieval 

Rituals 

(established 

as

a

centre 

of

excellence 

by

the

Danish 

National 

Re-

search 

Foundation, 

2002–2010) 

and

project 

leader 

for

an

international 

interdisciplinary 

project 

on

medieval 

saints’ 

cults 

and

their 

later 

receptions 

in

the

arts 

under 

the

European 

Science 

Foundation, 

2010–2014. 

He

is

editor 

for

the

musical 

reception 

of

the

Bible 

(

Encyclopedia 

of

the

Bible 

and

its

Reception

,

Berlin: 

De

Gruyter, 

2009–) 

and

main 

editor 

for

the

book 

series 

Ritus 

et

Artes: 

Traditions 

and

Transforma-

tions

,

Turnhout: 

Brepols. 

Relevant 

publications 

include 

Medieval 

Ritual 

and

Early 

Modern 

Music

,

co-

authored 

with 

Eyolf 

Østrem, 

Turnhout: 

Brepols, 

2008, 

as

well 

as

numerous 

articles 

and

co-edited 

vol-

umes 

on

medieval 

liturgy 

and

its

reception 

into 

the

arts.

Laura 

Katrine 

Skinnebach, 

PhD, 

currently 

holds 

a

postdoctoral 

position 

in

the

Department 

of

Aesthetics 

and

Communication 

at

Aarhus 

University 

(Denmark), 

ﬁnanced 

by

the

Danish 

Council 

for

Independent 

Research. 

Her

research 

interests 

include 

the

medieval 

and

early 

modern 

periods, 

devo-

tional 

practice, 

prayer 

books, 

practices 

of

perception, 

materiality, 

and

theories 

of

interpretation. 

Rele-

vant 

publications 

include 

Instruments 

of

Devotion, 

e 

Practices 

and

Objects 

of

Religious 

Piety 

from 

the

Late 

Middle 

Ages 

to

the

20th

Century

,

co-edited 

with 

Henning 

Laugerud, 

Aarhus: 

Aarhus 

University 

Press, 

2007; 

e 

Materiality 

of

Devotion 

in

Late 

Medieval 

Northern 

Europe: 

Images, 

Objects 

and

Practices

,

co-edited 

with 

Henning 

Laugerud 

&

Salvador 

Ryan, 

Dublin: 

Four 

Courts 

Press 

(forthcoming). 

Tim

Flohr 

Sørensen, 

PhD, 

is

an

Assistant 

Professor 

in

the

Saxo 

Institute 

at

the

University 

of

Co-

penhagen 

(Denmark). 

He

was

an

Assistant 

Professor 

at

Aarhus 

University 

(Denmark) 

between 

2012

and

2014, 

and

Marie 

Curie 

Fellow 

in

the

McDonald 

Institute 

for

Archaeological 

Research 

at

the

University 

of

Cambridge 

between 

2010

and

2012. 

As

an

archaeologist, 

he

is

interested 

in

materiality, 

aﬀect, 

space, 

and

movement 

with 

reference 

to

architecture 

and

mortuary 

practice 

in

the

past 

and

the

present. 

Rele-

vant 

publications 

include 

An

Anthropology 

of

Absence: 

Materializations 

of

Transcendence 

and

Loss

,

co-

edited 

with 

Mikkel 

Bille 

&

Frida 

Hastrup, 

New

York: 

Springer, 

2010; 

“In 

Visible 

Presence: 

e 

Role 

of

Light 

in

Shaping 

Religious 

Atmospheres”, 

e 

Oxford 

Handbook 

of

Light 

in

Archaeology

(forthcoming); 

Staging 

Atmospheres

,

a

special 

issue 

of

Emotion, 

Space 

and

Society

(forthcoming); 

“Delusion 

and

Disclo-

sure: 

Human 

Disposal 

and

the

Aesthetics 

of

Vagueness”, 

Embodied 

Knowledge: 

Technology 

and

Beliefs

,

Oxford: 

Oxbow, 

2013.

Cover
Title Page
Colophon
Contents
Acknowledgements
Into the Saturated Sensorium
Introducing the Principles of Perception and Mediation in the Middle Ages
Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen
Sensorium
A Model for Medieval Perception
Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen
Incarnation
Paradoxes of Perception and Mediation in Medieval Liturgical Art
Kristin Bliksrud Aavitsland
Sanctity
The Saint and the Senses: The Case of Bernard of Clairvaux
Brian Patrick McGuire
Representation
Courtly Love as a Problem of Literary Sense-Representation
Jørgen Bruhn
Remediation
Remediating Medieval Popular Ballads in Scandinavian Church Paintings
Sigurd Kværndrup
Devotion
Perception as Practice and Body as Devotion in Late Medieval Piety
Laura Katrine Skinnebach
Ritual
Medieval Liturgy and the Senses: The Case of the Mandatum
Nils Holger Petersen
Environment
Embodiment and Senses in Eleventh- to Thirteenth-Century Churches in Southern Scandinavia
Mads Dengsø Jessen & Tim Flohr Sørensen
Consumption
Meals, Miracles, and Material Culture in the Later Middle Ages
Jette Linaa
Memory
The Sensory Materiality of Belief and Understanding in Late Medieval Europe
Henning Laugerud
Bibliography
Index
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