Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600 /

Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600 / / ed. by Jutta Eming, Kathryn Starkey.

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bleisteiner, Martin,
Buschbeck, Björn Klaus,
Eming, Jutta,
Hartmann, Jan-Peer,
Helffenstein, Iris,
Hutchinson, Christopher,
Quenstedt, Falk,
Reisch, Mareike E.,
Renz, Tilo,
Starkey, Kathryn,
Velloso-Lyons, Leonardo,
Velloso-Lyons, Mae,
HerausgeberIn:
Eming, Jutta,
Starkey, Kathryn,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Sense, Matter, and Medium : New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture , 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 275 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: The Materiality and Immateriality of Things
  • 1 Intermedial Practice, Multisensory Perception: Lorenzo Monaco and the lavorii di mano around 1400
  • 2 Transporting the Holy City: Hans Tucher’s Letter from Jerusalem as Medium and Material Object
  • 3 Producing Spiritual Concreteness: Prayed Coats for Mary in the German Late Middle Ages
  • 4 How to Make a Knight: Reading Objects in the Ordene de chevalerie
  • 5 Of Blades and Bodies: Material Objects in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
  • 6 Barrow Agency: Reading Landscape in Felix’s Vita Guthlaci
  • 7 The Things Narrative Is Made Of: A Latourian Reading of the Description of Enite’s Horse in Hartmann of Aue’s Erec
  • 8 Community of Things: On the Constitution of the Ideal Kingdom of Crisa in Heinrich von Neustadt’s Apollonius von Tyrland
  • 9 Printing Things: Materiality and Immateriality in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus
  • 10 Seeing Like God: Envisioning History in Sixteenth-Century Iberia
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Contributor Biographies
  • Color Plates

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