IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1129: Entanglements of the Senses in Medieval Sacred Art and Religious Experience, II: Perception - Smell
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | ERC Project 'SenSArt: The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy - Sensory Agency of Sacred Art & Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th Centuries)' |
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| Organisers: | Micol Long, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent Zuleika Murat, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali, Università degli Studi di Padova |
| Moderator/Chair: | Annette Kern-Staehler, English Department, Universität Bern |
| Paper 1129-a | Images that Smell: Scents, Flavours, and Perfumes in the Aesthetic Experience of Art, 12th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 1129-b | Sacred Scent: The Representation of Censers in the Hispanic Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 1129-c | 'Sweet song', 'great odour', and 'celestial light': Rhetorical Evocation of the Senses in Late Medieval Lenten Devotion (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | This is the second of four sessions which look at medieval religious art and experience between the 10th and the 14th century from the innovative lenses of sensory perception, in the context of the ERC project SenSArt (Università degli Studi di Padova). This session focuses in particular on the role played by smell in the experience of religious images and objects (whose aromatic allure was frequently enhanced through the use of oils and anointments), in Mass (with specific reference to the use and perception of censers in the Hispanic Middle Ages) and in the Lenten liturgy at St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury. |