Aspects of knowledge
Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Magennis, Hugh (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-0702-2
- EAN: 9781526107022
- Produktnummer: 32341585
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'532 KB
- Abbildungen: 12 halftones
Über den Autor
Marilina Cesario is Senior Lecturer in the Earliest English Writings and Historical Linguistics at Queen's University, BelfastHugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen's University, Belfast
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