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Living on the Edge
This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.
Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
The body is at the same time a place where we express duration and/or discontinuity in history, a witness of radical social changes, and a factor of stabilization, but also of the transformation of human life - and therefore an eminent challenge for every human being. This book will contribute in a decisively interdisciplinary and cross-cultural way to a better understanding of the place, role, and connection of the body within social, political, and cultural shifts.
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and period boundaries. Since the closing decades of the twentieth century, medieval women's writing has been the subject of energetic conversation and debate. This interest, however, has focused predominantly on western European writers working within the Christian tradition: the Saxon visionaries, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Gertrude the Great, for example, and, in England, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe are cases in point. While this present book acknowledges the huge importance of such writers to women's literary history, it...
The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages
Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on their age? Was he sweet and tender, or formidable and powerful? Not finding sufficient information in the Gospels, which are almost completely silent about Jesus' childhood, medieval Christians turned to centuries-old apocryphal texts for answers. In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon demonstrates how these apocryphal legends fostered a vibrant and creative medieval piety. Popular tales about the Christ Child ent...
La fonction narrative des disciples dans Mc 14-15 et Lc 22-23
Disciples faillibles et fuyards, Pierre renie son Maître, Judas le livre à ses ennemis … Telles sont les images stéréotypées que le lecteur capte de la lecture du récit de la Passion de Jésus. Mais la problématique est-elle si simple ? La caractérisation des disciples n’est-elle pas plus complexe qu’on le croit généralement ? Cette étude narrative du récit de la Passion chez Marc et chez Luc montre qu’il ne s’agit pas de savoir si les disciples sont faillibles ou non, mais bien comment et pourquoi ils le sont ou ils ne le sont pas. Elle montre également que Marc n’est pas aussi négatif envers les disciples qu’on le croit généralement, ni Luc plus indulgent que Marc. Voilà le défi que notre étude ose affronter.
Quarto Series
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Sakrale Schriftbilder
Die Bildlichkeit von Schrift steht in der internationalen Forschung seit einigen Jahren hoch im Kurs. Ob nun die Rede von "Iconicity of Script", "Épinographie" oder von "Schriftbildlichkeit" ist - stets geht es darum, den analytischen Blick weg vom reinen Textbezug und hin auf die ikonischen Qualitäten von Schrift zu lenken. Dies trägt der grundlegenden Erkenntnis Rechnung, dass Schrift nicht nur gelesen, sondern immer auch geschaut wird, dass Buchstaben nicht nur geschrieben, sondern auch gemeißelt, geritzt, genäht, geprägt - und auch gemalt - werden können. Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Wirkung die vielen Schriftbilder im mittelalterlichen Kirchenraum auf die zeitgenössischen Rezipient: innen ausübten: Hatten die Schriftbilder Anteil an der Suggestion von Sakralität? Evozierten Inschriften die Gegenwart des Heiligen bzw. Göttlichen? Wurde ihnen vielleicht sogar selbst sakrale oder sakramentale Qualität zugeschrieben? Die elf Beiträge dieses Bandes behandeln - ausgehend vom Altar als Zentrum des christlichen Kultes - die ganze Vielfalt sakraler Schriftbilder im mittelalterlichen Kirchenraum.
2012
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
