The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.
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Classen's achievement is impressive....
–American Historical Review
[A] fresh contribution to the literature on gender and the body in religion.
–Religious Studies Review
The common thread that ties these subjects [cosmology, gender, and aesthetics] together is Classen's excellent historical overview of sensory symbolism....Classen provides a rich and evocative volume.
–L. A. Dawe, Social & Behavioral Sciences
With the blend of erudition and elegance we have now come to expect, Constance Classen's The Color of Angels does much to restore the history of the senses to its proper importance.
–Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute
It is a solid and imaginative contribution to both the history of the senses as well as to feminist scholarship from the middles ages up to the rise of modernism.
–Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago
–American Historical Review
[A] fresh contribution to the literature on gender and the body in religion.
–Religious Studies Review
The common thread that ties these subjects [cosmology, gender, and aesthetics] together is Classen's excellent historical overview of sensory symbolism....Classen provides a rich and evocative volume.
–L. A. Dawe, Social & Behavioral Sciences
With the blend of erudition and elegance we have now come to expect, Constance Classen's The Color of Angels does much to restore the history of the senses to its proper importance.
–Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute
It is a solid and imaginative contribution to both the history of the senses as well as to feminist scholarship from the middles ages up to the rise of modernism.
–Sander L. Gilman, University of Chicago
About the Author
Constance Classen, formerly a Reader at Center for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, is currently an Independent Researcher in the Social Sciences and Humanities at the Research Council of Canada. She is co-author of the aclaimed Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (Routledge, 1994) and Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures (Routledge, 1993).
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Scholarly, evocative, fascinating read. This is one of my favorite texts addressing art, gender, and our sense of senses.
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I have been reading Classen out of academic interest. Mostly because her books deal with areas very few other people seem to touch. I can highly recommend 'Worlds of sense' and `Aroma'. Very, very good books about things you've never thought of.
Color of Angels also is one such book. It deals with 'worldviews' on perceptions of the divine. Especially the first half is very readable, highly enjoyable and refreshing. However, at a certain moment I happened to be sitting in Cambridge, on the shores of the Cam, thinking: Yeah, this is all nice and interesting, but so what? In other words, at a certain moment the book lost its fascination. For me that point was the mediaeval details, however interesting, yet less stimulating. Please understand me well. This is not a bad book. I think for those interested in the topic it might be an exceptionally well crafted, highly readable, well constructed and substantiated book. For me it was a very enjoyable distraction. Up to a point.
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The medieval cosmos was an intricate tapestry of colors, sounds, and scents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multisensory aesthetics, sensory symbolism, scented womb, olfactory art, tactile art, olfactory imagery, sensory order, proximity senses, sensory imagery, sensory signs, blazing world, sensory domains, feminine domains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret Cavendish, Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen, Holy Spirit, Monsieur Venus, Charles Fourier, Helen Keller, Remedios Varo, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, Laura Bridgman, Bernard of Clairvaux, Des Esseintes, Ordre de la Rose, Philip Ncri, Teresa of Avila, Duke of Newcastle, Francis of Sales, Gallery Tom, Gustave Moreau, John of the Cross, Leonora Carrington, Philip Neri, While Cavendish New!
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The medieval cosmos was an intricate tapestry of colors, sounds, and scents. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multisensory aesthetics, sensory symbolism, scented womb, olfactory art, tactile art, olfactory imagery, sensory order, proximity senses, sensory imagery, sensory signs, blazing world, sensory domains, feminine domains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret Cavendish, Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen, Holy Spirit, Monsieur Venus, Charles Fourier, Helen Keller, Remedios Varo, Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, Laura Bridgman, Bernard of Clairvaux, Des Esseintes, Ordre de la Rose, Philip Ncri, Teresa of Avila, Duke of Newcastle, Francis of Sales, Gallery Tom, Gustave Moreau, John of the Cross, Leonora Carrington, Philip Neri, While Cavendish New!
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