Strange matter

Medieval disruptions of time

AvMartin Bleisteiner,Jan-Peer Hartmann

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

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Beskrivning

Strange matter offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality and the various ways in which the Middle Ages and subsequent periods experienced things in time. Drawing on a wide selection of examples that range from medieval texts and artefacts of both European and non-European origin to Macbeth’s highly evocative meditation on bubbles, the essays compiled in this volume look beyond the confines of the Anglophone world. As they engage critically with the specific temporal otherness modernity has so often ascribed to medieval texts and artefacts, the contributors also enter into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, such as thing studies and the growing field of ‘object biographies’ in cultural studies and museology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-02
Mått:138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:516 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526175960

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Martin Bleisteiner is an editor and academic translator based in Berlin Jan-Peer Hartmann is a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Aitiologies’ at the Freie Universität Berlin Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Medieval disruptions of time – Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James JohnstonPart I: Materiality in motion1 How to do things with things: Material objects in the multicultural Mediterranean – Sharon Kinoshita2 Suspenseful gifts: Gemstones as mediators in medieval German travel narratives – Falk Quenstedt3 Playing with linear time – Valerie AllenPart II: Ephemeral materialities4 A strange object of aesthetic desire: Chaucer’s theatre as cinema – Andrew James Johnston5 Vitreous temporalities – Stephanie Trigg6 Cosmopolitical Shakespeares (On Macbeth’s bubbles) – Julian YatesPart III: Material (after)lives7 The multiple lives of the Ruthwell Monument – Jan-Peer Hartmann8 The movements of the Franks Casket – Joshua Davies9 Meta-Poetic matter in John Lydgate’s Troy Book – Martin Bleisteiner and Wolfram Keller10 Marco Polo’s boqtaq: A medieval object and its afterlives – Kim M. PhillipsIndex