Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature - Couverture souple

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9780814258378: Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
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ISBN 10 : 0814258379 ISBN 13 : 9780814258378
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Bestiaries. Lapidaries. Lunaries. Inventories and household vocabularies. Lists are everywhere in medieval and early modern texts––evidence of the need to manage and order knowledge and experience. Yet until now, listing as a formal practice has received scant scholarly attention. In Enlistment, foremost medievalists and early modernists from both the Anglo-American and German traditions investigate the humble list as a platform for better understanding how and why lists captivated period audiences. From epic catalogues of trees in Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser to genealogies and the names of the divine, the lists in question come from a variety of periods, languages, and genres. Throughout, contributors demonstrate how lists have the curious capacity to challenge our categories of thinking and ordering of the world. The lists we encounter in medieval and early modern literature can thus be seen as seismographs of cultural knowledge and also as testing grounds for defining the ineffable, or unfathomable, or that which would be dangerous if otherwise expressed. Contributors: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Ingo Berensmeyer, Eva von Contzen, Alex Davis, Andrew James Johnston, Wolfram R. Keller, Alexis Kellner Becker, Kathryn Mogk Wagner, Martha Rust, James Simpson

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À propos de l'auteur

Eva von Contzen (Editor) Eva von Contzen is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She is the author of The Scottish Legendary: Towards a Poetics of Hagiographic Narration.James Simpson (Editor) James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and author of several books, including Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism.

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Éditeur
Ohio State University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814258379
ISBN 13 
9780814258378
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
238
Éditeur
Von Contzen Eva, Simpson James
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780814215227: Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

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ISBN 10 :  081421522X ISBN 13 :  9780814215227
Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2022
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