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Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia) by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (editor), Margaret Mullett (editor) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Byzantine culture was notably attuned to a cosmos of multiple dominions: material, bodily, intellectual, physical, spiritual, human, divine. Despite a prevailing discourse to the contrary, the Byzantine world found its bridges between domains most often in sensory modes of awareness. These different domains were concretely perceptible and were encountered daily amidst the mundane no less than the exalted. Icons, incense, music, sacred architecture, ritual activity; saints, imperial families, pe

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Author
Susan Ashbrook Harvey (editor), Margaret Mullett (editor)
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780884024217
Category
history
Subjects
History, Psychology, Neurology
Updated
2026-03-24

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