From Medievalism To Early Modernism

Author : Marina Gerzic,Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429683008

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From Medievalism to Early-Modernism by Marina Gerzic,Aidan Norrie Pdf

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture—such as the allusions to John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and the impact of intertextual references and internet fandom on the BBC’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses—the contributors illustrate how cinematic, televisual, artistic, and literary depictions of the historical and cultural past not only re-purpose the past in varying ways, but also build on a history of adaptations that audiences have come to know and expect. From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past analyses the way that the medieval and early modern periods are used in modern adaptations, and how these adaptations both reflect contemporary concerns, and engage with a history of intertextuality and intervisuality.

Author : Jennifer Summit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226781723

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Memory's Library by Jennifer Summit Pdf

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004193598

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Early Modern Medievalisms by Anonim Pdf

Although modernity historically defined itself by relation to the medieval, the ways in which early moderns invoked and conceptualized the medieval are still insufficiently understood. This volume's seventeen essays present some preliminary explorations into the field of early modern medievalisms.

Author : Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317057185

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Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann Pdf

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Author : Arzu Öztürkmen,Evelyn Birge Vitz
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 2503546919

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Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean by Arzu Öztürkmen,Evelyn Birge Vitz Pdf

On the large eastern edge of the Mediterranean, the period from the start of the Crusades through the Ottoman era knew - and brought into mutual contact - a truly remarkable array of performances and performers, of a multitude of types. But of course examination of performance in the Eastern Mediterranean during the medieval and early modern era requires some careful conceptualization: of 'performance' and 'performer'; of 'the Mediterranean' as well - this region also often being termed the 'Muslim world', the 'Middle East', or the 'Ottoman domain'. This book represents a preliminary attempt to lay out and analyse a broad set of performance genres in this particular geographical setting.

Author : Kate Buchanan,Lucinda H.S. Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317098133

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Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles by Kate Buchanan,Lucinda H.S. Dean Pdf

What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it or recognise its jurisdiction? And what strategies and 'language' -written and spoken, visual and auditory, material, cultural and political - did those in authority throughout the medieval and early modern era use to project and make known their power? These questions have been crucial since regulations for governance entered society and are found at the core of this volume. In order to address these issues from an historical perspective, this collection of essays considers representations of authority made by a cross-section of society within the British Isles. Arranged in thematic sections, the 14 essays in the collection bridge the divide between medieval and early modern to build up understanding of the developments and continuities that can be followed across the centuries in question. Whether crown or noble, government or church, burgh or merchant; all desired power and influence, but their means of representing authority were very different. These essays encompass a myriad of methods demonstrating power and disseminating the image of authority, including: material culture, art, literature, architecture and landscapes, saintly cults, speeches and propaganda, martial posturing and strategic alliances, music, liturgy and ceremonial display. Thus, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates the variable forms in which authority was presented by key individuals and institutions in Scotland and the British Isles. By placing these within the context of the European powers with whom they interacted, this volume also underlines the unique relationships developed between the people and those who exercised authority over them.

Author : Naomi J. Miller,Diane Purkiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030142117

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Literary Cultures and Medieval and Early Modern Childhoods by Naomi J. Miller,Diane Purkiss Pdf

Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.

Author : Grażyna Jurkowlaniec,Ika Matyjaszkiewicz,Zuzanna Sarnecka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351681490

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The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec,Ika Matyjaszkiewicz,Zuzanna Sarnecka Pdf

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Jan-Peer Hartmann,Andrew James Johnston
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814214746

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Material Remains by Jan-Peer Hartmann,Andrew James Johnston Pdf

Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110557725

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Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time by Albrecht Classen Pdf

There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.

Author : Allie Terry-Fritsch,Erin Felicia Labbie
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409442861

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Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Allie Terry-Fritsch,Erin Felicia Labbie Pdf

Interrogating how medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, the essays in this collection explore the experience of individual or collective beholders of violence during the period. Addressing a range of medieval and early modern art forms, including visual images, objects, texts, and performances, the contributors examine the complexities of viewing and the production of knowledge across temporal moments.

Author : Karoline Kjesrud,Mikael Males,Brepols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Paganism
ISBN : 2503579019

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Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia by Karoline Kjesrud,Mikael Males,Brepols Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110693669

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Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.

Author : Carlee A. Bradbury,Michelle Moseley-Christian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319650494

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Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art by Carlee A. Bradbury,Michelle Moseley-Christian Pdf

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324725

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Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books by Anonim Pdf

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on interdisciplinary research on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.