Routledge

Routledge

English

'Milner's work is as thorough as it is fascinating...The Senses and the English Reformation is a magisterial work that will open more avenues of research in this crucial area regarding the role of the senses in experiencing the divine via liturgical worship.' Trinity Journal 'The Senses and the English Reformation is valuable because it opens up the human senses in worship as a new realm for study. Perception itself was one of the great disputed features of the Reformation in England.' Renaissance Quarterly 'This stimulating addition to the historiography deepens our appreciation of the implications of Reformation and its far-reaching nature.' Reformation 'With extraordinary learning, Matthew Milner examines philosophical views of the senses from the high Middle Ages through the sixteenth century... Those concerned with the texture of religious practice in the crucial centuries of pre- and post-Reformation England will prize the learning and scope of this book.' Catholic Historical Review 'Matthew Milner’s The Senses and the English Reformation is an erudite and well-researched study that describes the history of the senses and sensuality in the pre-Reformation and post-Reformation church in England... an essential study of the history of the Reformation from an adept and careful scholar.' Sixteenth Century Studies 'Milner’s ambitious book highlights potential sensory developments in stimulating and thought-provoking terms. This approach does not yet revise the Reformation, but it does valuably extend our interpretive framework, and calls for clearer definition of the intellective (selection and meaning) and the sensory (physical and spiritual).' American Historical Review 'The book adopts an exemplary strategy. It tells us all about the late medieval devotional landscape and its reliance on the senses and then explores how things changed in England in the Wake of the Reformation... The volume opens up many promising avenues of future research.' Religious S