Medieval avatars: projecting presence, performing emotions
Auteur :
Bino, Carla Maria
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009610735
Date de publication :
5 mars 2026
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This Element explores how medieval devotional and disciplinary practices acted as 'immersive technologies' for producing presence and configuring emotions. It investigates how the devout subject projected themselves into an imaginal, affective space, where memory, posture, and sensory experience converged to an encounter with the divine.