The Medieval Fold: Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

Verderber, Suzanne M.

ISBN 10: 113700097X / ISBN 13: 9781137000972

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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272 pages. 8.58x5.59x0.71 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Medieval Fold: Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113700097X
• ISBN 13: 9781137000972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to pastoral power passively, they constructed fantasies and behaviors, redeploying or 'folding' it to create new forms of life and culture. Incorporating the work of Nietzsche, Foucault, Lacan, and Deleuze, Suzanne Verderber presents a model of the subject in which the opposition between interior self and external world is dislodged.

About the Author

Suzanne M. Verderber is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.