Blurred boundaries and deceptive dichotomies in pre-modern texts and images : culture, society and reception / edited by Dafna Nissim and Vered Tohar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nissim, Dafna, 1965- editor.

Tohar, Vered, 1969- editor.

Tohar, Vered.

Series:

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 28.

Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture Series ; v.28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

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 common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies.The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts - literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system - the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783111243894

3111243893

OCLC:

1414456094