Biological and behavioral description and analysis of human senses in ecologically relevant circumstances
Through its theatrically enacted bi-narrative, al-Farazdaq’s story of the girls overturns biographical reading of Imruʼ al-Qays’s Muʻallaqah. … Read the post al-Farazdaq realized Imruʼ al-Qays' poetic revelation
Amid their learned classical references, cleric-scholars’ 12th-century Latin lyrics from the Carmina Burana show carnal love trumping reason. … Read the post cleric-scholars’ Latin lyrics long for bodily action
Christian icons were used spiritually before Islam, continued to be used through Byzantine iconoclasm, and were prevalent in the 9th-century Islamic world. … Read the post Christian icons in Islamic world during Byzantine iconoclasm
The Sackler Gallery’s fantastic Dunhuang cave visualization installation shows new media technologies that can greatly lever cultural and economic assets. … Read the post Dunhuang visualization shows media lever for cultural assets
Amid vigorous, decentralized visual-spiritual competition in ancient China, the story of Jesus, not spiritual use of images, distinguished “The Way.” … Read the post spiritual use of images in ancient Chinese Christianity