Aspects of Knowledge
Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages
Published on 3. April 2018
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-7190-9784-3 (ISBN)
Description
This edited collection explores how knowledge was preserved and reinvented in the Middle Ages. Rather than focusing on a historical period or specific cultural and historical events, it eschews traditional categories of periodisation and discipline, establishing connections and cross-sections between different departments of knowledge. The essays cover the period from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, examining the history of science (computus, prognostication), the history of art, literature, theology (homilies, prayers, hagiography, contemplative texts), music, historiography and geography.
Aspects of knowledge is aimed at an academic readership, including advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as specialists in medieval literature, history of science, history of knowledge, geography, theology, music, philosophy, intellectual history, history of language and material culture. -- .
Aspects of knowledge is aimed at an academic readership, including advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as specialists in medieval literature, history of science, history of knowledge, geography, theology, music, philosophy, intellectual history, history of language and material culture. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-9784-3 (9780719097843)
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Marilina Cesario | Hugh Magennis
Aspects of Knowledge
Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages
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Marilina Cesario | Hugh Magennis
Aspects of Knowledge
Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages
E-Book
04/2018
1st Edition
Manchester University Press
€189.99
Available for download
Persons
Marilina Cesario is Senior Lecturer in the Earliest English Writings and Historical Linguistics at Queen's University, Belfast
Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen's University, Belfast -- .
Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen's University, Belfast -- .
Content
Introduction - Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis
Part I: Anthologies of knowledge
1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission - Laszlo Sandor Chardonnens
2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future - Marilina Cesario
3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge - Ann Buckley
Part II: Transmission of Christian traditions
4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature - Hugh Magennis
5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 - Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman
6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West - Denis Renevey
7 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman - Kath Stevenson
Part III: Past and present
8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas - Richard North
9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook - Emily Wingfield
Part IV: Knowledge and materiality
10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' - Michelle P. Brown
11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English - Donald G. Scragg
Index -- .
Part I: Anthologies of knowledge
1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission - Laszlo Sandor Chardonnens
2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future - Marilina Cesario
3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge - Ann Buckley
Part II: Transmission of Christian traditions
4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature - Hugh Magennis
5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 - Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman
6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West - Denis Renevey
7 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman - Kath Stevenson
Part III: Past and present
8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas - Richard North
9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook - Emily Wingfield
Part IV: Knowledge and materiality
10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' - Michelle P. Brown
11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English - Donald G. Scragg
Index -- .