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Locating the Middle Ages
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Locating the Middle Ages
Hardcover. An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture. Editor(s): Weiss, Julian; Salih, Sarah. Series: King's College London Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23, 20 colour, 3 black and white. BIC Classification: HBLC1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 748.
An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture. This interdisciplinary collection of sixteen essays explores the significance of space and place in Late Antique and medieval culture, as well as modern reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture, the visual arts (painting and manuscript illumination), epic, romance, historiography, hagiography, cartography, travel writing, as well as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East and West, self and other, Muslim and Christian, the volume addresses the often unexpected roles played ... Read more
An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in medieval texts, art, and architecture. This interdisciplinary collection of sixteen essays explores the significance of space and place in Late Antique and medieval culture, as well as modern reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture, the visual arts (painting and manuscript illumination), epic, romance, historiography, hagiography, cartography, travel writing, as well as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East and West, self and other, Muslim and Christian, the volume addresses the often unexpected roles played ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
King's College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780953983872
SKU
V9780953983872
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About Roger Hargreaves
JULIAN WEISS is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Spanish, King's College London. JULIAN WEISS is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Spanish, King's College London.
Reviews for Locating the Middle Ages
A collection that medieval historians should engage with in terms of how both the sources and modern scholars construct ideas of place and space.
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