Sensual and sensory experiences in the Middle Ages : on pleasure, fear, desire and pain / edited by Carme Muntaner Alsina, David Carrillo-Rangel, Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel and Pau Castell Granados.

Where was the line between pleasure and irritation in the sensory overload caused by the sounds, colours, and smells of a medieval market? How could pain and suffering be relieved by hoping for, and desiring to experience, an intimate, almost familiar, contact with Christ? This volume shows the diff...

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