Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images : : Culture, Society and Reception /

Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images : : Culture, Society and Reception / / ed. by Dafna Nissim, Vered Tohar.

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so commo...

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Nissim, Dafna,
Tohar, Vered,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Blurred Boundaries in Pre-Modern Texts and Images: Aspects of Audiences and Readers-Viewers Responses
  • The Sacred and the Profane in German Courtly Romances and Late Medieval Verse Narratives: With an Emphasis on Ulrich Bonerius and Heinrich Kaufringer
  • The Poetic and Ideological Blurring of Boundaries in the Jewish Book of Ethics Orḥot Ṣaddiqim
  • Laughing at Death: Blurred Boundaries in Giotto's Last Judgment
  • The Popular in Service of the Sacred: The Sculpted Musicians of Santiago de Compostela
  • Image and Legend of Saint Margaret as an Aid in Childbirth Rituals
  • Violent Women and the Blurring of Gender in some Medieval Narratives
  • On the Heavenly and the Earthly, the Secular as Sacred - A New Reading of Medieval Hebrew Fables
  • The Secular and the Sacred in a Bifolio from Louis of Laval's Book of Hours and Its Spiritual Use
  • Between Psalter and "Mirrors for Princes": On the Moral and Didactic Messages in BL Cotton MS Domitian A XVII
  • Visual and Textual Authority: Reading Chevalier in Manuscripts of La Vie des pères
  • Aspects of Italian and Flemish Identity in Relation to Book Illumination: Reception of Devotional and Antiquarian Ideas through Depictions of Jewelry
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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