ISBN:
9781641890755
Language:
English
Pages:
320 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Medieval Media Cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kiening, Christian, 1962 - Mediality in the Middle Ages
DDC:
302.230940902
Keywords:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
;
Europa
;
Medien
;
Materialität
;
Schriftlichkeit
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Model -- Chapter 3. Presence -- Chapter 4. Word -- Chapter 5. Writing -- Chapter 6. Body -- Chapter 7. Materiality -- Chapter 8. Spacetime -- Chapter 9. Metonymy -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index (authors and anonymous works, without biblical books)
Abstract:
In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and materiality, andtheir experimentation with the possibilitiesof media before the concept was invented.The book presents, for the first time, acoherent, tightly argued history of medievalmediality, which also casts a new light onmodern thinking about the medial
Note:
In English
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