Table of Contents

Introduction

Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal

Part I. Sensing Religion

Chapter 1. The Breath of Lazarus in the Mocedades de Rodrigo

Ryan D. Giles

Chapter 2. Olfaction, Sin, and Grace in Berceo’s Milagros

Víctor Rodríguez-Pereira

Part II. Cognition and the Senses

Chapter 3. Perception, Memory and Imagination in Don Qujxote

Julia Domínguez

Chapter 4. Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache

Robert K. Fritz

Chapter 5. The Aesthetics of Disgust in Cervantes and Zayas

Steven Wagschal

Part III. Perception

Chapter 6. Sight, Sense, and Scents in the Cancionero de Palacio

E. Michael Gerli

Chapter 7. The Physical Senses in Early Modern Galenism Debates and Prescriptive Domestic Literature

Carolyn A. Nadeau

Chapter 8. Cervantes’s Exemplary Sensorium

Charles Victor Ganelin

Part IV. Sensing Empire

Chapter 9. The Senses of Empire and the Scents of Babylon in the Libro de Alexandre

Emily Francomano

Chapter 10. Portuguese Coastal Realms and the Delight of the Senses

Josiah Blackmore

Chapter 11. Eucharistic Thought and Imperial Longing in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Portugal

Henry Berlin

Chapter 12. Festive Soundscapes in Potosí and Minas Gerais

Lisa Voigt

Part V. Sensing the Urban

Chapter 13. Celestial Visions and Demonic Touch: García’s Inventions in La verdad sospechosa

Frederick A. de Armas

Chapter 14. Motherhood, Interrupted: Sensing Birth in Early Modern Spanish Fiction

Enrique García Santo-Tomás

About the Author

Ryan D. Giles is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Steven Wagschal is a professor and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Reviews

"Beyond Sight is a highly readable book that appeals, quite literally, to all the senses, and which significantly expands our understanding of medieval and early modern culture."
*Bulletin of Spanish Studies*