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Mediality in the Middle Ages : abundance and lack / Christian Kiening ; translated from the German by Nicola Barfoot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiening, Christian, author.
- Series:
- Medieval media cultures
- Standardized Title:
- FuÌlle und Mangel. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives.
- Art, Medieval.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds [England] : Arc Humanities Press [2019]
- Summary:
- In medieval culture, media forms were places of mediated immediacy. They transported a presence of the divine, but also knowledge of its unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinating approaches of medieval authors to the word and writing, the body and materiality, and their experimentation with the possibilities of media before the concept was invented. The book presents, for the first time, a coherent, tightly argued history of medieval mediality, which also casts a new light on modern thinking about the medial.
- Contents:
- Model
- Presence
- Word
- Writing
- Body
- Materiality
- Spacetime
- Metonymy.
- Notes:
- Translation of: FuÌlle und Mangel : MedialitaÌt im Mittelalter.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781641890755
- 1641890754
- OCLC:
- 1128431251
- Publisher Number:
- 99983907597
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