{"title":"Skin, the inner senses, and the readers’ inner life in the Aviarium of Hugh of Fouilloy and related texts","authors":"S. Kay","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-003","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I argue that a twelfth-century experiment in the bestiary tradition – Hugh of Fouilloy’s Aviarium or “Book of Birds” and the various bestiary texts with which it was partnered – uses the bodily substance of the medieval book to mirror an emotional, moral or spiritual self.1 Specifically, Hugh deploys the imagination of sight and touch – covering, enclosing, or shielding – in order to conjure in his readers the sense of having an “inner life” that is outlined by “inner vision” and “inner touch,” and filled with love for God and one’s fellow man.2 These developments may be understood as taking place through the internalized sight and touch of another’s skin, variously manifested as a parental (specifically maternal) skin, the social skin of an institution like the cloister, or the skin from which the medieval page was made. They have parallels in other religious works that exploit the book’s potential as a mirror, such as the twelfth-century Speculum virginum (“Mirror for Virgins”) conceived, as Janice Pindar puts it, “as an image against which the religious woman can measure her inner self, a reminder of who she is and what she is supposed to be like.”3 I use this argument to develop an idea first advanced some years ago that reading a parchment book acts as an extension of the reader’s own skin, which may insinuate unintended elements in this inner self.4","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126445912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La poésie mystique","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125219643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language, Soul, & Body (Parts)","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134457911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Petrarch and the Senses","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131349507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corps et esprit","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129758730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melancholy and Creativity in Petrarch","authors":"Massimo","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-012","url":null,"abstract":"weighed down and confused. And so that plague of apparitions [ phantasmata ] rips and mangles your thinking, and with its fatal multiplicity obstructs the way to illuminating meditation, through which we are raised up to the one and only highest light.) phantasmic soul primacy over the phantasm primacy , utterance and understanding of every linguistic","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128066620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La notion philosophico-médicale de spiritus dans l’Avicenne latin","authors":"D. Jacquart","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-002","url":null,"abstract":"Héritier du pneuma antique, prédécesseur de la notion d’« esprits animaux » d’un René Descartes, le spiritus des médecins a une histoire médiévale riche et complexe. Installé durablement dans la physiologie dès la fin du XIe siècle, grâce aux traductions de Constantin l’Africain et au De natura hominis de Némésius d’Emèse traduit par Alphano de Salerne, puis par Burgundio de Pise, il se subdivise en deux ou trois sortes, a une origine que d’aucuns placent dans le foie, d’autres dans le cœur, tous s’accordant pour en faire le véhicule, à travers veines, artères et nerfs, de forces ou facultés immatérielles, les virtutes, qui animent le corps et assurent les activités végétatives, vitales, sensitives, et, pour certains auteurs, même rationnelles1. Source fondamentale en matière de philosophie et de médecine, Avicenne évoque à de multiples reprises cet « esprit », sans en donner nulle part une présentation exhaustive, ni en préciser clairement l’origine et la nature. Pour tenter de situer la place de ce concept dans sa pensée, il est donc nécessaire d’en suivre les différentes apparitions dans diverses œuvres, tant philosophiques que médicales. Rappelons que, selon Avicenne, l’étude de l’âme doit précéder celle du corps, car la première aide à comprendre les dispositions corporelles, alors que la seconde est d’une moindre utilité dans les investigations sur l’âme, même si l’une et l’autre science se confortent mutuellement2. La psychologie mise en œuvre","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131600516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies without Minds, Minds without Bodies","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124866172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122504310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le « contact virtuel » entre un esprit et un corps et l’action à distance","authors":"Nicolas Weill-Parot, Thomas D'aquin","doi":"10.1515/9783110615937-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615937-014","url":null,"abstract":"Une notion apparaît dans divers textes scolastiques de théologie ou de philosophie, le contactus virtualis, à propos de deux questions : l’action de l’esprit sur un corps et l’action à distance. Ce double contexte invite à s’interroger sur les manières dont l’action d’une substance spirituelle sur un corps pouvait être pensée dans le cadre d’une philosophie péripatéticienne imposant un contact entre l’agent et le patient.","PeriodicalId":360228,"journal":{"name":"Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114919819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}