Herbert L. Kessler is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University and Invited Professor of the Masaryk University, Brno. An elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Medieval Academy of America, he has published some 200 articles and reviews and is author or editor of twenty-four books. His recent publications include (with Paul E. Dutton) The Poetry and Paintings in the First Bible of Charles the Bald (1997); (with Johanna Zacharias) Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim (2000); Seeing Medieval Art (2004); and Neither God nor Man: Texts, Pictures, and the Anxiety of Medieval Art (2007).
Richard G. Newhauser is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe. He has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, ACLS, and the National Humanities Center. He has published extensively on the moral tradition and sensory studies in the Middle Ages and beyond and is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007); (co-editor) Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2012); (translator) Peter of Limoges, The Moral Treatise on the Eye (2012); and (editor) A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages (2014). He is completing a critical edition of Peter of Limoges's Tractatus moralis de oculo.
Arthur J. Russell is Lecturer in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. He recently completed his dissertation at Arizona State University on "The Moral Sense of Touch: Tactile Values in Late Medieval England." His publications include (co-author) "Mapping Virtual Pilgrimage in an Early Fifteenth-Century Arma Christi Roll," in Arma Christi (2014). He is preparing a fascicle on the Huntington Library for An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII.
"A volume about what Foucault would have called disciplining the senses, but here is better characterized as edifying the eye or the senses, this compendium of art and intellectual history charts new paths into the fascinating and fecund later Middle Ages. The goal of the volume is to interrogate afresh how ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed later medieval thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled with theological speculation, and what effect these results had on those who learned about them through preaching." -- Robert Nelson (Yale University)
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