Miracles Marvels And Monsters In The Middle Ages
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Monsters Marvels and Miracles
Author | : Leif Søndergaard,Rasmus Thorning Hansen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105123846003 |
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People at all levels of medieval society were extremely fascinated by the strange and unknown in the world around them. They tried in various ways to cope with the unfamiliar mysterious, monstrous, marvellous, and miraculous forces in order to understand them and give them a coherent meaning. Voyages were undertaken to remote parts of Asia. Some journeys were real, while others were mere "armchair travels". Most people took the descriptions in travel accounts to be the ultimate truth about the mysterious places in lands far away from Europe. Scholars formed a general view of the God-created cosmos and its seemingly mysterious character, expressed in encyclopedic works, summae, and in medieval maps. Monsters, Marvels and Miracles examines such journeys and landscapes in the Middle Ages.
Marvels Monsters and Miracles
Author | : Timothy S. Jones,David A. Sprunger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055202132 |
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This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. The essays trace the development of representations of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monster and miracles. They analyze the importance of marvelous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities to ask what legacy the medieval confrontations with marvels left for the modern world. These excellent essays look at issues that have long perplexed readers, such as the meaning of marvels, and whether we can read them in earnest or whether they can be appreciated only as play. The different authors bring their expertise to the fore to discuss the development of thoughts on marvels from the classical tradition through the concept's development in the medieval and early modern tradition. This collection is essential reading for any analysis of the marvelous in these periods and the state of scholarship surrounding them.
Miracles Marvels and Monsters in the Middle Ages
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Author | : Almut Höfert |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3906817067 |
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The Monstrous Middle Ages
Author | : Bettina Bildhauer,Robert Mills |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802086675 |
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The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological, and cultural value. Monstrosity is bound up with questions of body image and deformity, nature and knowledge, hybridity and horror. To explore a culture's attitudes to the monstrous is to comprehend one of its most important symbolic tools. The Monstrous Middle Ages looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writings and mystical texts to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gender and sexual identity, religious symbolism, and social prejudice in the Middle Ages. Reading the Middle Ages through its monsters provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh perspectives. The Monstrous Middle Ages will be essential reading for anyone interested in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for both medieval cultural production and contemporary critical practice.
Monstrous Bodies political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Laura Lunger Knoppers,Joan B. Landes |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0801489016 |
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Multi-disciplinary in approach & cross-European in scope, this volume explores links between the political & the monstrous in Europe from the Renaissance to the 19th century. These essays stress the continual reinvention & polemical applications of the monstrous.
The Epistemology of the Monstrous in the Middle Ages
Author | : Lisa Verner |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2005-01-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135873066 |
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This book studies the phenomena of monsters and marvels from the time of Pliny the Elder through the 14th century.
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Author | : Albrecht Classen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 2020-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110693669 |
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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.
Wonders Marvels and Monsters in Early Modern Culture
Author | : Peter G. Platt |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874136784 |
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""The marvelous follows us always" - or so the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi asserted in 1587. The essays in this book collectively make the case that this assertion could be an epigraph for the Renaissance. For Wonder was a concept absolutely central to the early modern period. Encompassing both inquiry and astonishment, "wonder" indeed followed the Renaissance everywhere - into redefinitions of the mind, the body, art, literature, the known world. Often called the age of discovery, the Renaissance should also be seen as the age of the marvelous." "However, defining just what la maraviglia would have meant for Patrizi and his age is no small task." "This volume, then, seeks to explore early modern views of wonder and the marvelous by revealing the complexity of la maraviglia in the Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved