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Medieval Temporalities
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How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or culturally specific - or both? The essays here offer a range of perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literary, ecclesiastical and visionary responses to time during this period. They cover a wide and diverse variety of material, from historical prose to lyrical verse, and from liturgical and visionary writing to textiles and images, both real and imagined, across the literary and devotional cultures of England, Italy, Germany and Russia. From anxieties about misspent time to moments of pure joy in the here and now, from concerns about worldly affairs to experiences of being freed from the trappings of time, the volume demonstrates how medieval cultures and societies engaged with and reflected on their own temporalities.
Product details
Number of Pages:
278
Release Date:
2021-02-19
Publication Date:
2021-02-19
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
ISBN10:
1843845776
ISBN13:
9781843845775
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Weight:
584 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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