Brepols Online Books Medieval Miscellanea Collection 2023 - bob2023mime
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Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English LiteratureAcross three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Accounts of travel, foreign contacts, conversion, migration, landscape, nation, empire, and conquest are set within the continual flow of people and ideas from East to West, from continent to island and back, across the period. The fifteen contributors investigate how the early medieval English positioned themselves spatially and temporally in relation to their insular neighbours and other peoples and cultures. Several chapters explore the impact of Greek and Latin learning on Old English literature, while others extend the discussion beyond the parameters of Europe to consider connections with Asia and the Far East. Together these essays reflect ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, connectivity and apartness, multiculturalism and insularity that shaped pre-Conquest England.
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Images, signes et paroles dans l’Occident médiéval
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Images, signes et paroles dans l’Occident médiéval show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Images, signes et paroles dans l’Occident médiévalCet ouvrage rassemble dix contributions qui proposent des perspectives originales pour l’analyse conjointe des modes d’expression figurée de l'Occident médiéval. Menées tant par des « historiens de l’art » que par des « historiens », elles abordent la question de l’image-objet, des signes alphabétiques et iconiques, du lieu peint, de la liturgie et de la prédication. Documents d’archives, exégèse biblique, sermons et récits hagiographiques sont exploités de manière fine et exhaustive pour rendre compte, au plus près, du contexte d’exécution des œuvres, qu’elles soient inconnues ou célèbres. Ce sont alors les angles d’approches adoptés, comme l’anthropologie des images ou les études transgenre, mais aussi les relations complexes entre art, architecture et rites, qui enrichissent ici l’exploration et d’objets de culte - les lipsanothèques catalanes, les linges de l’autel ou les ex-voto - et de panneaux peints - comme la Flagellation du Christ de Piero della Francesca - et des cycles de peintures décorant la Tour Ferrande à Pernes-les-Fontaines, San Pellegrino à Bominaco, et cinq chapelles de la Ligurie et du Piémont.
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Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic Societies
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic Societies show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Inter-Ethnic Relations and the Functioning of Multi-Ethnic SocietiesThe three-volume project Cohesion in Multi-Ethnic Societies in Europe from c.1000 to the Present explores and seeks to find solutions to a crucial problem facing contemporary Europe: in what circumstances can different ethnic groups co-operate for the common good? They apparently did so in the past, combining to form political societies, medieval and early modern duchies, kingdoms, and empires. But did they maintain their ethnic traditions in this process? Did they pass on elements of their cultural memory when they were not in a dominant position in a given polity?
The first volume of the project explored written sources about the past to show how communities shaped their collective memories in order to ensure the smooth functioning of multi-ethnic political communities. This second volume looks beyond texts and focuses on activities and events that were designed to build a sense of community within a political community made up of different ethnic groups. The coexistence of different ethnic groups is considered not through the prism of theoretical analyses by intellectual elites, but by following community members’ responses to current events as recorded in the sources.
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