Por una Edad Media Sensorial

"Por una Edad Media Sensorial" ("For a Sensorial Middle Ages") is a Spanish translation of collected writings by Richard Newhauser. The collection was conceived by Gerardo Rodríguez within the scope of the Medieval Studies and Research Group (GIEM) of the Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies (CIEsE) of the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Mar del Plata. Its purpose is to make known to a wide public, both academic and general, the foundations, advances and the most relevant contributions on sensory themes and problems of and in the Middle Ages.

Each volume in this series offers a selection of works by a specific author, due to their status as founder or promoter of the field of sensory history, with the intention of bringing together essays, articles, chapters and conferences that, during their career, have been disseminated dispersedly in time and space. In cases where the originals are written in other languages, the collection provides the respective versions in Spanish, made by specialists in academic translation and reviewed by the editors and/or members of their work team. Studies on the senses, emotions and body in the Middle Ages constitute a range of unavoidable approaches when it comes to understanding that fascinating and unfathomable period in the history of humanity. The breadth of such thematic area makes it especially permeable to the views of various disciplines and research practices, which this collection seeks to share with interested readers in a 'sensitive' way, that is, with the certainty that all knowledge generates sensations and that all perception can become a source of knowledge.