Author: Robert Bartlett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521878322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Exploration of how medieval people categorized the world, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural.
Author: Gerhard Jaritz
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155053235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.The miraculous intervention of saints or other divine agents, the wondrous realities beyond understanding, or the manifestations of magic attributed to diabolic forces, were contained by a variety of discourses, described and discussed in religion, philosophy, chronicles, literature and fiction, and also in a large number of pictures and material objects. The nine essays in this collection discusses how supernatural phenomena – especially angels and devils – found visual manifestation in Latin and Eastern Christianity as well as Judaism in the late medieval, early renaissance period.
Author: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503549217
Category : Animals (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The essays in this collection were first delivered as presentations at the Sixteenth Annual ACMRS Conference on 'Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance' in February, 2010, at Arizona State University. They reflect the current state of the critical discussion regarding the 'history of the human'.
Author: Corinne J. Saunders
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842211
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521003377
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.
Author: David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271084391
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
Author: Jacques Le Goff
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789142121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle, and the cloister. Roaming between the boundaries of the natural and the supernatural, between earth and the heavens, the medieval universe is illustrated by a shared iconography, covering a vast geographical span. This imaginative history is also a continuing story, which presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present, and openness to the future.
Author: Joan A. Holladay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108470181
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Appearing in all figural media from the mid-twelfth century, family trees and lineages made political claims for their patrons.
Author: David I. Shyovitz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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In A Remembrance of His Wonders, David I. Shyovitz uncovers the sophisticated ways in which medieval Ashkenazic Jews engaged with the workings and meaning of the natural world, and traces the porous boundaries between medieval science and mysticism, nature and the supernatural, and ultimately, Christians and Jews.
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813217385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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In this volume, distinguished scholar Edward Grant identifies the vital elements that contributed to the creation of a widespread interest in natural philosophy, which has been characterized as the "Great Mother of the Sciences."
