Seeing and Hearing God: Sensory Experience in Angela of Foligno’s Memoriale
Religions April 2, 2026 Eduard López Hortelano
Angela of Foligno's Memoriale presents seeing and hearing not merely as devotional motifs but as epistemic operations that transform affect into theological cognition. Sensory language in the text mediates authority, discernment, and transformation. The article argues that Angela's itinerary progresses from imitating Christ to participating in the Trinity, culminating in a state described as being in medio Trinitatis. The Memoriale is thus a theology of perception where embodiment, affect, and cognition are inseparable, with suffering and compassion functioning as forms of knowledge.