
The Deepest Sense
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Inside Story
- 1. A Place by the Fire
- The Common Touch
- A Place by the Fire
- The Walled City
- Hard at Work
- The Rites of Pleasure
- 2. A Touchable God
- A Tactile Cosmology
- Mystical Touch
- Gestures of Piety
- The Cult of Relics
- Corpus Christi
- Ordeals by Fire
- 3. Painful Times
- Suffering Bodies and Healing Hands
- Blind Touch
- Leprosy, the Black Death, and Dancing Mania
- The Uses of Pain
- The Torments of Hell
- Sorrow and Compassion
- 4. A Woman's Touch
- Male and Female Bodies
- A Woman's Touch
- Women's Work
- Texts and Textiles
- Mystical Raptures and Pain Craft
- The Witch's Touch
- 5. Animal Skins
- Animal Bodies
- Animal Companions
- Beasts, Wild Men, and Slaves
- Animal Souls
- Experimentation and the Campaign Against Cruelty
- 6. Tactile Arts
- The Aesthetics of Touch
- The Feel of Art
- Crafty Ladies
- Touch in the Museum
- 7. The Modern Touch
- Petrarch's Vision
- The Decline of Sacred Touch
- New Sensory Worlds
- The Persistence of Touch
- The Finishing Touch
- 8. Sensations of a New Age
- The Drill
- The School, the Prison, and the Museum
- The Feel of the City
- The Electric Creed
- Touch at Home
- The Stuff of Dreams
- Bibliography
- Index
- back cover
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