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Genre/Form: | Student Collection |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stuart Clark |
ISBN: | 9780199250134 0199250138 |
OCLC Number: | 74522281 |
Description: | xi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Species : visions and values -- Fantasies : seeing without what was within -- Prestiges : illusions in magic and art -- Glamours : demons and virtual worlds -- Images : the reformation of the eyes -- Apparitions : the discernment of spirits -- Sights : King Saul and King Macbeth -- Seemings : philosophical scepticism -- Dreams : the epistemology of sleep -- Signs : vision and the new philosophy. |
Responsibility: | Stuart Clark. |
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[A] densely argued work. * British Journal for the History of Science * A major intellectual triumph, an indispensible and enlightening read for all those interested in the early modern body and its senses. * History Workshop Journal * [This book is] based on prodigiously wide reading and solid scholarship. * The English Historical Review * This book offers much new information on attitudes during the early modern period, attitudes that have been historically neglected ... [An] important piece of research. * Early Popular Visual Culture * ...compelling...Vanities of the Eye offers readers a taste of the unexpected and fruitful complexities to be gained by turning a serious eye to the historical questions of sight. * Yvonne Gasper Institute for Historical Review * A densely argued but wonderfully subtle exploration of how, from the 15th to the 17th centuries, people developed a complex understanding of the relationship between what was seen and what was known. * PD Smith, The Guardian * Vanities of the Eye is dense with examples of the interpenetration of the weird, the wondrous and the mundane, drawn from a deep well of scholarship... A thoroughly satisfying read... 9 out of 10 * Fortean Times * an impressive and authoritative contribution to the cultural historu of sight that will provide a substantial resource for scholars working in a number of fields. * Jane Partner, Renaissance Quarterly * Read more...

