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This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has
emphasized the period as one of change and development through
reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The
Medieval period is popularly thought of as a dark age, before the
flowerings of the Renaissance ushered a return to the wisdom of the
Classical era. However, the reality familiar to scholars and
students of the Middle Ages - that this was a time of immense
transition and transformation - is well known. This book approaches
the theme of 'stasis' in broad terms, with chapters covering the
full temporal range from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages.
Contributors to this collection seek to establish what remained
static, continuous or ongoing in the Medieval era, and how the
period's political and cultural upheavals generated stasis in the
form of deadlock, nostalgia, and the preservation of ancient
traditions.
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Angels & Saints (Hardcover)
Eliot Weinberger; Notes by Mary Wellesley
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Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from
Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about
these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made
of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist
Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and
distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration
of the heavenly host.
From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation
then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives
retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies,
followed by a glimpse of the afterlife.
Threaded throughout
Angels & Saints are the glorious illuminated grid poems by the
eighteenth-century Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus. These
astonishingly complex, proto-“concrete” poems are untangled in
a lucid afterword by the medieval scholar and historian Mary
Wellesley.
This volume questions the extent to which Medieval studies has
emphasized the period as one of change and development through
reexamining aspects of the medieval world that remained static. The
Medieval period is popularly thought of as a dark age, before the
flowerings of the Renaissance ushered a return to the wisdom of the
Classical era. However, the reality familiar to scholars and
students of the Middle Ages - that this was a time of immense
transition and transformation - is well known. This book approaches
the theme of 'stasis' in broad terms, with chapters covering the
full temporal range from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages.
Contributors to this collection seek to establish what remained
static, continuous or ongoing in the Medieval era, and how the
period's political and cultural upheavals generated stasis in the
form of deadlock, nostalgia, and the preservation of ancient
traditions.
'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and
beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive,
conversational and intensely visual' Helen Castor
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Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history
and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence
we have of entire lives, long receded. Hidden Hands tells the
stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and
collectors who made and kept the beautiful, fragile objects that
have survived the ravages of fire, water and deliberate destruction
to form a picture of both English culture and the wider European
culture of which it is part. Without manuscripts, she shows, many
historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower
social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased,
and the remnants of their labours destroyed. From the Cuthbert
Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe,
Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters
and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and
preservation of these priceless objects. With an insistent emphasis
on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated
with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important
contribution to our understanding of literature and history.
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