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Getting the Blues
Getting the Blues: Vision and Cognition in the Middle Ages is an interdisciplinary study of medieval color. By integrating scientific and literary approaches, it revises our current understanding of how people in medieval Europe experienced color and what it meant to them. This book insists that the past perception of the world can be recovered by joining timeless universal constraints on human experience (discovered by science) to the unique cultural expressions of that experience (revealed by literature). The Middle Ages may evoke images of the multicolored stained glass of gothic cathedrals, the motley garb of minstrels, or the brilliant illuminations of manuscripts, yet such color often ...
Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England
Uses the life of Richard I to argue that medieval England's public talk was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission and reception of literature.
The Medieval Risk-Reward Society
"The Medieval Risk-Reward Society" offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg-showing how a society based on sacrifice becomes one of wagers and investments. Will Hasty's sociological approach to medieval courtly literature, informed by the analytic tools of game theory, reveals the blossoming of a worldview in which outcomes are uncertain, such that the very self (of a character or an authorial persona) is contingent on success or failure in possessing the things it desires-and upon which its social identity and personal happiness depend. D...
Truth and Tales
Imaginatively reconstructs Medieval cultural and communications networks from their extant artifacts.
Medieval Things
Investigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.
Nota Bene
This book argues that digital networks of manuscript images, texts, and annotations, can not only aid us in comprehending medieval literary culture, but are, in fact, complementary to medieval modes of thought and manner in which manuscripts transmitted ideas.
From Parchment to Cyberspace
By presenting a rigorous philosophical argument for the authenticity of such images this book illustrates how digitization offers scholars innovative methods for comparing manuscripts of vernacular literature.
Demonic Possession, Vulnerability, and Performance in Medieval French Drama
Demonic Possession, Vulnerability, and Performance in Medieval French Drama advocates for an affective and ethical framework of reading the vocabularies of possession.
Answerable Style
Addresses the medieval idea of the literary, with special focus on the poetry of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower.
The Art of Vision
One of the most common ways of setting the arts in parallel, at least from the literary side, is through the popular rhetorical device of "ekphrasis." The original meaning of this term is simply an extended and detailed, lively description, but it has been used most commonly in reference to painting or sculpture. In this lively collection of essays, Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse offer a major contribution to the study of text-image relationships in medieval Europe. Resisting any rigid definition of ekphrasis, "The Art of Vision" is committed to reclaiming "medieval" ekphrasis, which has not only been criticized for its supposed aesthetic narcissism but has also frequ...
