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Inconceivable Beasts

Author : Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 : 9780866984812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Inconceivable Beasts written by Asa Simon Mittman and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefraegelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize the notion of scholarship as being able to provide final, concrete meanings, even as they suggest the possibility for other ways of approaching meanings, including the question of what it meant-and means-to be a monster, and thus to be human. Containing the first color facsimile of the Wonders, transcription, translation and extensive commentary, this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon art, and monster studies. Book jacket.

My Favourite Things

Author : Gerhard Jaritz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643909268
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book My Favourite Things written by Gerhard Jaritz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into material culture has become one of the most important fields in medieval and early modern studies. While past research focused primarily on the objects as such, present interests have moved to humans and their ties to things. This volume concentrates on the perception of medieval and early modern material culture, in particular exceptional objects that can be seen as "favourite things". Contributions lead from theoretical issues to specific groups of objects, their exclusivity and function as social markers. The analyses address both religious and secular space.

Sea Monsters

Author : Thea Tomaini
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447149
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Sea Monsters written by Thea Tomaini and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaches are places that give and take, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. Through monsters, we confront our tiny time between catastrophes and develop a recognition of Otherness by which an ethical understanding of difference becomes possible. Learning to read the monster's environmental signs often helps humans determine the scope of the monster's place in the eco/cosmic timeline and defeat it-until the epic cycle inevitably repeats; monsters live and live and live. Even so; when humans identify and confront monsters we do so at the risk of exposing our own monstrosity. When a massive creature is pushed into human proximity by the ocean's wide shoulders, the waves deposit and erode human assumptions about itself and its environment; words, sounds, breath, water, wind, flesh, blood, and bones wash in and out. Chance encounters reveal us to ourselves anew. When we look into the inky backs of whales, or deep into vortices, what do we see?In October 2014, the BABEL Working Group headed to the beach. The 3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group was held at The University of California, Santa Barbara, where the Pacific Ocean laid her face against the sand and experienced the conference panels exploring, examining, and exalting the margins of sea and shore, of earth and water. This volume of essays represents MEARCSTAPA's panel, entitled, "The Nature of the Beast/Beasts of Nature: Monstrous Environments." These essays explore what the environment reveals via monster theory, what monsters-here, whales and whirlpools-make visible or accessible to humanity and what they draw away from it.

Monsters in the Classroom

Author : Adam Golub
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627606
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Monsters in the Classroom written by Adam Golub and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essays describes innovative teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with monsters to enhance learning in high school and college courses. The contributors discuss the implications of inviting fearsome creatures into the classroom, showing how they work to create compelling narratives and provide students a framework for analyzing history, culture, and everyday life. Essays explore ways of using the monstrous to teach literature, film, philosophy, theater, art history, religion, foreign language, and other subjects. Some sample syllabi, assignments, and class materials are provided.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

Author : Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472418012
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous written by Asa Simon Mittman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.

Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History

Author : Iris Idelson-Shein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350052159
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History by : Iris Idelson-Shein

Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Jewish History written by Iris Idelson-Shein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of monstrosity in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modernity. Drawing on Jewish history, literary studies, folklore, art history and the history of science, it examines both the historical depiction of Jews as monsters and the creative use of monstrous beings in Jewish culture. Jews have occupied a liminal position within European society and culture, being deeply immersed yet outsiders to it. For this reason, they were perceived in terms of otherness and were often represented as monstrous beings. However, at the same time, European Jews invoked, with tantalizing ubiquity, images of magical, terrifying and hybrid beings in their texts, art and folktales. These images were used by Jewish authors and artists to push back against their own identification as monstrous or diabolical and to tackle concerns about religious persecution, assimilation and acculturation, gender and sexuality, science and technology and the rise of antisemitism. Bringing together an impressive cast of contributors from around the world, this fascinating volume is an invaluable resource for academics, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in Jewish studies, as well as the history of monsters.

Postcolonising the Medieval Image

Author : Eva Frojmovic
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351867245
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonising the Medieval Image written by Eva Frojmovic and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The language of the postcolonial -- 1 Decolonising gold bracteates: From Late Roman medallions to Scandinavian Migration Period pendants -- 2 The Franks Casket speaks back: The bones of the past, the becoming of England -- 3 Camouflaging and echoing the Latin mass in an illuminated French-language missal -- Part 2 The location of the postcolonial -- 4 Mandeville's Jews, colonialism, certainty, and art history -- 5 Conquest and coexistence in sixteenth-century Granada: Imposing orders in the Alhambra's Mexuar -- 6 Beyond Foucault's laugh: On the ethical practice of medieval art history -- Part 3 The ambivalence of the postcolonial -- 7 Postcolonialising Thomas Becket: The saint as resistant site -- 8 Defining a merchant identity and aesthetic in Pisa: Muslim ceramics as commodities, mementos, and architectural decoration on eleventh-century churches -- 9 The Muslim warrior at the Seder meal: Dynamics between minorities in the Rylands Haggadah -- 10 Neighbouring and mixta in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz -- Bibliography -- Index

The Art of Fantasy

Author : S. Elizabeth
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711279969
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Fantasy written by S. Elizabeth and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the unreal and impossible, the mystical and mythical, via the medium of paint. But what draws them to the imaginary, the uncharted and the unknown? Is it merely an escape from reality? Or are they seeking a greater understanding of the human experience, or perhaps the very meaning of life itself? With myriad styles and methods of expression, what links artists through the ages? And how have these visual flights of fancy and imagination changed over the course of time? The Art of Fantasy is a visual sourcebook of all that is fantastical – from fine art to illustration, and from surrealists and symbolists to the creatives working in undefined territories. While the artists in our history books (Blake, Goya, Dali, Magritte, Ernst) first brought fantasy art to the galleries, it was the twentieth century artists who brought it to the masses. It is in this book that, for the first time, they are united and equally weighted, presenting a mesmerising and thoughtful curation of the best fantasy artwork out there. This is an inspiring collection for fans of myth, magic, fantasy and art history.

Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript

Author : Simon C. Thomson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360867
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Communal Creativity in the Making of the 'Beowulf' Manuscript written by Simon C. Thomson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Communal Creativity in the Making of the ‘Beowulf’ Manuscript, Simon Thomson analyses details of scribal activity to tell a story about the project that preserved Beowulf as one of a collective, if error-strewn, endeavour.

Handbook of Medieval Culture

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110377616
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Medieval Culture by : Albrecht Classen

Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Culture written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers

Author : Catherine Osborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199282064
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers written by Catherine Osborne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal rights are, one might think, a fairly modern concept. This study shows that this is emphatically not the case and reveals a rich vein of Classical thought on the treatment of animals and the relationship between humans and their environment.

Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Author : Richard H. Godden
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030254585
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World written by Richard H. Godden and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed “the extraordinary body” is labeled a “monster.” This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.

Basilisks and Beowulf

Author : Tim Flight
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144345
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Basilisks and Beowulf written by Tim Flight and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening, engrossing look at the central role of monsters in the Anglo-Saxon worldview—now in paperback. This book addresses a simple question: why were the Anglo-Saxons obsessed with monsters, many of which did not exist? Drawing on literature and art, theology, and a wealth of firsthand evidence, Basilisks and Beowulf reveals a people huddled at the edge of the known map, using the fantastic and the grotesque as a way of understanding the world around them and their place within it. For the Anglo-Saxons, monsters helped to distinguish the sacred and the profane; they carried God’s message to mankind, exposing His divine hand in creation itself. At the same time, monsters were agents of disorder, seeking to kill people, conquer their lands, and even challenge what it meant to be human. Learning about where monsters lived and how they behaved allowed the Anglo-Saxons to situate themselves in the world, as well as to apprehend something of the divine plan. It is for these reasons that monsters were at the very center of their worldview. From map monsters to demons, dragons to Leviathan, we neglect these beasts at our peril.

A Companion to Medieval Art

Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119077745
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Medieval Art written by Conrad Rudolph and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.

Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311069378X
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.

Pygmalion’s Power

Author : Thomas E. A. Dale
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271085185
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion’s Power written by Thomas E. A. Dale and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatrous. In Pygmalion’s Power, Thomas E. A. Dale argues that the reintroduction of architectural sculpture after a hiatus of some seven hundred years arose with the particular goal of engaging the senses in a Christian religious experience. Since the term “Romanesque” was coined in the nineteenth century, the reintroduction of stone sculpture around the mid-eleventh century has been explained as a revivalist phenomenon, one predicated on the desire to claim the authority of ancient Rome. In this study, Dale proposes an alternative theory. Covering a broad range of sculpture types—including autonomous cult statuary in wood and metal, funerary sculpture, architectural sculpture, and portraiture—Dale shows how the revitalized art form was part of a broader shift in emphasis toward spiritual embodiment and affective piety during the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. Adding fresh insight to scholarship on the Romanesque, Pygmalion’s Power borrows from trends in cultural anthropology to demonstrate the power and potential of these sculptures to produce emotional effects that made them an important sensory part of the religious culture of the era.

The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England

Author : Annette Kern-Stähler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315497
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England written by Annette Kern-Stähler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England. Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer