Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images
Culture, Society and Reception
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Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images
Culture, Society and Reception
About this book
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 â literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system â 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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- 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 OrḼot ᚢaddiqim
- Laughing at Death: Blurred Boundaries in Giottoâs 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 â A New Reading of Medieval Hebrew Fables
- The Secular and the Sacred in a Bifolio from Louis of Lavalâs Book of Hours and Its Spiritual Use
- Between Psalter and âMirrors for Princesââ:â 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