Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images
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Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images

Culture, Society and Reception

Herausgegeben: Nissim, Dafna; Tohar, Vered
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This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies.The contributors to the present collection e...