The Book of Hours and the Body
The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367504529 | 273 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367504529 | 273 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours–evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture.