Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

by: Betancourt, R.

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. Revisiting scholarly assumptions about the tactility of sight in the Byzantine world, it demonstrates how the haptic language associated with vision referred to the cognitive actions of the viewer as they grasped sensory data in the mind in order to comprehend and produce working imaginations of objects for thought and memory. At stake is how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to delineate and cultivate the manner in which art and rhetoric was understood as mediating the realities they wished to convey. This would similarly come to contour how Byzantine religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the Divine.

Proposes a new understanding of theories of vision in the Byzantine world
Surveys material from the ancient and medieval Greek worlds
Discusses secular and religious, high and low texts

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note to the reader
Introduction: can't touch this
Part I. How Sight Is Not Touch:
1. The medium of sight
2. The problem of tactility
3. The commonalities of the senses
Part II. Photios and the Unfolding of Perception: Introduction
4. Has the mind seen?: the language of effluxes
5. Has it grasped?: apprehending the object
6. Has it visualized?, I: the grasp of the imagination
7. Has it visualized?, II: the problem of fantasy
8. Then it has effortlessly …: judgment and assent
Conclusion
Part III. Mediation, Veneration, Remediation:
9. Medium and mediation
10. Tactility and veneration
11. Synaesthesia and remediation
Conclusion: tempted to touch
Bibliography
Index.

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