Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 : Rethinking the Humanities Through Premodern Texts / Elaine Treharne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treharne, Elaine, author.

Series:

Book Cultures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching.

Humanities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2024]

Summary:

This study uses a series of medieval texts to address a set of urgent critical issues in Humanities centring on categories of L/literature, history, periodization, languages, and descriptions of script. These categories are inherited from the foundation of modern disciplines and fields of study, superimposed on what could be more flexible modes of scholarship. They are reinforced by modern academics in ways that hinder nuance, intellectual nimbleness, and new interpretative possibilities. Readers and researchers of English Language, Literature, Book Historical/Media Studies, and History are obliged by delimiting labels to navigate problematic foundational approaches and sources that confine and frustrate scholarly investigation. Through a series of cogent case studies, all situated from 1050 to 1250, the book highlights how restrictive and hierarchical modern scholarly categories can sometimes be.0.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

Introduction OLD ENGLISH AND ITS AFTERWORD

Chapter 1 FACT AND FICTION: HISTORY AND THE IMAGINATION

Chapter 2 KNOWN AND UNKNOWN: AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS

Chapter 3 LIFE AND DEATH: TRANSITION AND TRANSFORMATION

Chapter 4 MANUSCRIPT AND SCRIPT: TIME AND PLACE

AFTERWORDS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781802702897

180270289X

OCLC:

1457230559