Senses of touch : : human dignity and deformity from Michelangelo to Calvin / / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle.

Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative ideal, as signified by the sense of sight, to an active reality, as signified by the sense of touch. From posture to pie...

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Superior document:Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; Volume 71
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 71.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Acknowledgments / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Introduction / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Chapter One Adam's Finger / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Chapter Two Eve's Palm / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Chapter Three God's Hand / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Primary Sources / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Index of Names / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Index of Subjects / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought / Editor: Heiko A. Oberman.