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Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature de S. Lightsey

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature: The New Middle Ages

Autor S. Lightsey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 sep 2007
This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403974419
ISBN-10: 1403974411
Pagini: 212
Ilustrații: XV, 212 p. 8 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria The New Middle Ages

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Clever Devices, Marvelous Affinities By Angel's Hand: Langland, Richard II, and Craft Mirabilia The Medieval Economy of Wonder: Chaucer, Marvels, and Techne Bodies and Machines: the Subject of Technology Advice to Kings and the Pursuit of Marvels: Gower's Monstrous Body Politic Manufactured Marvels in Mandeville's Terrestrial Garden Conclusion: Marvelous Craft

Recenzii

"Scott Lightsey's Manmade Marvels is a remarkable and unique work on a neglected aspect of late-medieval society....an intriguing discussion of the complex and contested status of mechanical wonders in late-medieval society." - The Medieval Review
"This is extremely original and imaginative research and there is nothing else like it in the field. Lightsey has brought together an almost obsessive interest in curiosities and similacra with a sweeping theoretical framework that combines the History of Science with Cultural Studies. I believe that Lightsey s book will not only be greeted with enthusiasm by his fellow medievalists, but will be regarded as a major contribution to what is now being called the secret life of things." - John M. Ganim, University of California, Riverside; Author of Medievalism and Orientalism
"Lightsey s study of the proliferation of mechanical marvels in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries offers a fascinating view of English court culture and its critics. Focusing on the court of Richard II, Lightsey shows the dynamic interplay of wonder, curiosity, and connoisseurship in contemporary literary responses to this important aspect of royal spectacle." - Katharine Park, Harvard University; Author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
"This study of constructed marvels in late medieval literature and culture shows that an interest in mirabilia was central to developing medieval court cultures and to the individuals, including artisans, who supported such cultures. The study cuts through disciplinary boundaries and contextualizes mirabilia in a highly original way, providing a new view of the role of the technical arts in writings such as Piers Plowman and in the culture that surrounded such writings." - Pamela O. Long, Independent Historian; Author of Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Notă biografică

SCOTT LIGHTSEY is Assistant Professor of Medieval Language and Literature in the Department of English, Georgia State University, USA.