In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-one prominent
medievalists discuss continuity and change in ideas of personhood
and community and argue for the viability of the comic mode in the
study and recovery of history. These scholars approach their
sources not from a particular ideological viewpoint but with an
understanding that all topics, questions, and explanations are
viable. They draw on a variety of sources in Latin, Arabic, French,
German, Middle English, and more, and employ a range of theories
and methodologies, always keeping in mind that environments are
inseparable from the making of the people who inhabit them and that
these people are in part constituted by and understood in terms of
their communities.
Essays feature close readings of both familiar and lesser known
materials, offering provocative interpretations of John of
Rupescissa's alchemy; the relationship between the living and the
saintly dead in Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons; the nomenclature of
heresy in the early eleventh century; the apocalyptic visions of
Robert of Uz?s; Machiavelli's "De principatibus"; the role of
"demotic religiosity" in economic development; and the visions of
Elizabeth of Sch?nau. Contributors write as historians of religion,
art, literature, culture, and society, approaching their subjects
through the particular and the singular rather than through the
thematic and the theoretical. Playing with the wild possibilities
of the historical fragments at their disposal, the scholars in this
collection advance a new and exciting approach to writing medieval
history.
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