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Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700-1600 (Hardcover)
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Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700-1600 (Hardcover)
Series: Sense, Matter, and Medium
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The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety
of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention
on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600). The range of
things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy
of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim's
letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and
narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the
Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue's Erec, Heinrich of
Neustadt's Apollonius of Tyre, Luis de Camoes's Os Lusiadas, and
the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers
consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often
foregrounding the intersection between the material and the
immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they
express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval
and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than
symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both
their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are
addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled,
in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted
engagement in human life.
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