Author: C. Barbetti
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230370535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
Ekphrastic Medieval Visions
Author: C. Barbetti
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230370535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230370535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition.
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Languages : en
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Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts
Author: Hilary Powell
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030526593
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge, and allow them to inhabit social roles that were as much desired as feared. Voice-hearing and visionary experience offered powerful creative possibilities in imaginative literature and were often central to the writing of inner, spiritual lives. Ideas about such experience were taken up and reshaped in response to the cultural shifts of the early modern period. These essays, which consider the period 1100 to 1700, offer diverse new insights into a complex, controversial, and contested category of human experience, exploring literary and spiritual works as illuminated by scientific and medical writings, natural philosophy and theology, and the visual arts. In extending and challenging contemporary bio-medical perspectives through the insights and methodologies of the arts and humanities, the volume offers a timely intervention within the wider project of the medical humanities. Chapters 2 and 5 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030526593
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted according to frameworks that could credit visionaries or voice-hearers with spiritual knowledge, and allow them to inhabit social roles that were as much desired as feared. Voice-hearing and visionary experience offered powerful creative possibilities in imaginative literature and were often central to the writing of inner, spiritual lives. Ideas about such experience were taken up and reshaped in response to the cultural shifts of the early modern period. These essays, which consider the period 1100 to 1700, offer diverse new insights into a complex, controversial, and contested category of human experience, exploring literary and spiritual works as illuminated by scientific and medical writings, natural philosophy and theology, and the visual arts. In extending and challenging contemporary bio-medical perspectives through the insights and methodologies of the arts and humanities, the volume offers a timely intervention within the wider project of the medical humanities. Chapters 2 and 5 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Vision and Audience in Medieval Drama
Author: Andrea Louise Young
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137446072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The earliest complete morality play in English, The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia, a region once known for its production of artistic objects. Discussing the spectator experience of this famed play, Young argues that vision is the organizing principle that informs this play's staging, structure, and narrative.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137446072
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The earliest complete morality play in English, The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia, a region once known for its production of artistic objects. Discussing the spectator experience of this famed play, Young argues that vision is the organizing principle that informs this play's staging, structure, and narrative.
Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women
Author: M. Cotter-Lynch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137064838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137064838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Examines a range of texts commemorating European holy women from the ninth through fifteenth centuries. Explores the relationship between memorial practices and identity formation. Draws upon much of the recent scholarly interest in the nature and uses of memory.
Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
Author: K. Walter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137084642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137084642
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.
Received Medievalisms
Author: C. Cyrus
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230393586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230393586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
Chaucer and the Death of the Political Animal
Author: Jameson S. Workman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137448644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature. What results is a radical retake on Chaucer as a philosopher and poet, upending any preconceived views.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137448644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature. What results is a radical retake on Chaucer as a philosopher and poet, upending any preconceived views.
Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France
Author: E. Baumgarten
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137317582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, discussing law, scholarly pursuits, art, culture, and poetry.
The Gnostic Paradigm
Author: N. Elias
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.