Medieval Memorials
Corine Schleif
Medieval Christians wishing to furnish themselves with eternal memorials had many options at their disposal. They sought be re-membered by individuals and institutions—already during life but especially after death—through occasioning embodied sensations that were perpetuated through donations endowments. Ideologically they positioned as gift-givers. Reminders, often not always, channeled visual representations actuated in all the senses multisensory functioning synesthetic conduits superadditive ways. Donors usurped time attention of needy well those who claimed follow lives relative deprivation austerity, (female) monastics, complexly orchestrated social economic interdependencies included negotiations accommodation challenge sensory hierarchies. Social controls regulating permanent display could circumvented use non-visual performance m...
The senses & society