The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Problems, Trends, and Opportunities for Research.

DAHOOD, ROGER

ISBN 10: 2503508057 / ISBN 13: 9782503508054

Published by Turnhout, Brepols. 1999, 1999

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Original publisher's paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 194pp., acknowledgements, introduction, 12 contributions with illustrations - footnotes & references, index, notes on contributors, table of contents. CONTENTS: 1. A Panet Discussion among Leslie J. Workman & 6 others. 1. Marcia L. Colish: Re-envision the Middle Ages: A View from Intellectual History. 3. Judith Barad: The Ontology of Animal Rights. 4. Pamela Clements: Shape-Shifting and Gender-BVending: Merlin's Last Laugh at Silence. 5. Joan Grenier-Winthur: Lectio multiplicier, lectio potior: On the Form and Impact of Electronic Hypermedia Editions. 6. S.B. Maccoull: George of Pisidia, Against Severus: In Praise of Heraclius. 7. Karla Mallette: Arabic and Italian Lyric in Medieval Sicily. 8. Richard H. Osberg: Rewriting Romance: From 'Sir Gawain' to 'The Green Knight'. 9. Curtis Perry: Inwardness as Sedition in Heywood and Marlowe. 10. Philip M. Soergel: Portraying Monstrous Birth in Early Modern Germany. 11. Richard J. Utz: Resistance to [The New] Medievalism? Comparative Deliberations on [National] Philology, Mediävalismus, and Mittelalter-Rezeption in Germany and North America. 12. Jan Wilks: Abelard on Figurative Language and Transferred Meaning. Very fine copy. Volume 2: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Problems, Trends, and Opportunities for Research.
• Publisher: Turnhout, Brepols. 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503508057
• ISBN 13: 9782503508054
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

This volume, containing a selection of essays from ACMRS's 1996 conference, reflects a broad range of interests in medieval and Renaissance studies. Although most of the eleven essays address western European topics, one essay deals with Byzantine political and theological histroy, and one touches on Arabic poetry in medieval Sicily. The chronological range is also broad, extending from the seventh to the twentieth century and including topics from an early Byzantine polemicist to the recent growing interest in medievalism, and from critical readings of early texts to implications of computer technology for future manuscript study. In some significant ways the volume continues earlier discussions of the state of the profession, such as those in William D. Paden (ed.), The Future of the Middle Ages, and John Van Engen (ed.), The Past and Future of Medieval Studies. More generally, this second volume in the ASMAR series extends the theme of the first, Reinventing the Past, and makes fresh contributions to the scholarship on a number of problems. If the current volume provides a reliable gauge for the future of medieval and Renaissance studies, we are on the verge of new beginnings, increasingly outward-looking, reexamining and redefining old boundaries to reach a new and sharpened understanding of the past.