Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600

Edited by: Jutta Eming and Kathryn Starkey

Volume 7 in the series Sense, Matter, and Medium

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742985

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The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim’s letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue’s Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt’s Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.

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Jutta Eming, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction: The Materiality and Immateriality of Things Jutta Eming and Kathryn Starkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Intermedial Practice, Multisensory Perception: Lorenzo Monaco and the lavorii di mano around 1400 Iris Helffenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Transporting the Holy City: Hans Tucher’s Letter from Jerusalem as Medium and Material Object Mareike E. Reisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3 Producing Spiritual Concreteness: Prayed Coats for Mary in the German Late Middle Ages Björn Klaus Buschbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4 How to Make a Knight: Reading Objects in the Ordene de chevalerie Mae Velloso-Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5 Of Blades and Bodies: Material Objects in the Alliterative Morte Arthure Martin Bleisteiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6 Barrow Agency: Reading Landscape in Felix’s Vita Guthlaci Jan-Peer Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7 The Things Narrative Is Made Of: A Latourian Reading of the Description of Enite’s Horse in Hartmann of Aue’s Erec Falk Quenstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8 Community of Things: On the Constitution of the Ideal Kingdom of Crisa in Heinrich von Neustadt’s Apollonius von Tyrland Tilo Renz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
9 Printing Things: Materiality and Immateriality in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus Christopher Hutchinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
10 Seeing Like God: Envisioning History in Sixteenth-Century Iberia Leonardo Velloso-Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Contributor Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars in medieval and early modern cultures, literary scholars, art historians
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 275
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
- Coloured Illustrations: 9
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Medieval literature; medieval art; material culture; early modern culture

eBook

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110742985

Hardcover

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110742329

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111358659