Introduction: Entering the Sensory Worlds of the Renaissance Herman Roodenburg (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: Architecture, Food and Manners Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago, USA) 2. Urban Sensations: Attractive and Repulsive Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Sensory Knowledge in a Material World Evelyn Welch (Victoria & Albert Museum, UK) 4. The Senses in Religion: Towards the Reformation of the Senses Matthew Milner (McGill University, Canada) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From the Nobility of Sight to the Materialism of Touch Danijela Kambaskovic (University of Western Australia) and Charles T. Wolfe (Ghent University, Belgium) 6. Medicine and the Senses: Physicians, Sensation, and the Soul Stephen Pender (University of Windsor, Canada) 7. The Senses in Literature: Renaissance Poetry and the Paradox of Perception Holly Dugan (George Washington University, USA) 8. Art and the Senses: Representation and Reception of Renaissance Sensations François Quiviger (Warburg Institute, UK) 9 Sensory Media: The Circular Links between Orality and Writing Federico Barbierato (University of Verona, Italy) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index

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