Perception and Action:

What is it about?

This monograph covers the history of the senses in medieval Europe and compares the history of perception with the history of ethics. Its main argument is that a change took place between the tenth and the twelfth centuries transforming the earlier habit of consociating modes of perception and standards of ethics with particular groups and ascribing to aesthetic and ethical theory the task of accommodating conflicts among rules and standards, into the later habit of estabilising general aesthetic standards and ethical norms for groups residing in cities and territories.

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