Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The sacred and the senses in an age of reform
  • Wietse de Boer and Christine GöttlerInsinuating the cross: sight, suggestion, and self in Renaissance painting / Alfred Acres
  • Display and devotion: exhibiting icons and their copies in counter-reformation Italy
  • Andrew R. Casper
  • 'In sensus cadentem imaginem': varieties of the spiritual image in Theodoor Galle's Life of Blessed Father Ignatius of Loyola of 1610
  • Walter S. Melion
  • 'An odour. A taste. A touch. Impossible to describe': Nole me tangere and the senses
  • Barbara Baert
  • 'The beads with which we pray are made from it': devotional ambers in early modern Italy
  • Rachel King
  • 'The melodie of Heaven': sermonizing the open ear in early modern England
  • Jennifer Rae McDermott
  • Beyond vision: the impact of Rogier van der Weyden's Descent from the cross
  • Jennifer R. Hammerschmidt
  • 'A cui ne fece dono': art, exchange, and sensory engagement in Anthony van Dyck's Lamentation for the Antwerp Beguines
  • Sarah Joan Moran
  • Tasting God: the sweetness of crying in the counter-Reformation
  • Joseph Imorde
  • The sense of hearing politicized: liturgical polyphony and political ambition in fifteenth-century Florence
  • Klaus Pietschmann
  • Of eels and pears: a sixteenth-century debate on taste, temperance, and the pleasures of the senses
  • Laura Giannetti
  • To captivate the senses: sensory governance, heresy, and idolatry in mid-Tudor England
  • Matthew Milner
  • Piazza San Marco: theatre of the senses, market place of the world
  • Iain Fenlon
  • A Neapolitan Heaven: the sensory universe of G.B. Giustiniani
  • Wietse de Boer
  • The temptation of the senses at the Sacro Monte di Varallo
  • Christine Göttler
  • Vision, medicine, and magic: betwitchment and lovesickness in Jacques Grevin's Deux livres des venins (1568)
  • Yvonne Petry
  • The return of the species: Jesuit responses to Kepler's new theory of images
  • Sven Dupré,