Nowhere in the Middle Ages / / Karma Lochrie.
Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lo...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. No Past
- Chapter 1. Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium
- Chapter 2. Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now
- Chapter 3. Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism
- Chapter 4. "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball
- Chapter 5. Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments