Thinking of the Medieval (eBook, ePUB)

Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages
Redaktion: Saltzman, Benjamin A.; Perry, R. D.

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Produktbeschreibung

The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational group of intellectuals - Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Erwin Panofsky, Simone Weil, among others - the essays in this volume shed light on these thinkers in relation to one another and on the persistence of their legacies in our own time. This interdisciplinary collection gives us a fuller and clearer sense of how these figures made some of their most enduring contributions with medieval culture in mind. Thinking of the Medieval is a timely reminder of just how vital the Middle Ages have been in shaping modern thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108807968
• Artikelnr.: 70910427

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Directions of Thought - The Middle Ages at the Mid-century R.
D. Perry and Benjamin A. Saltzman; Part I. Politics: 1. Outside History:
Fanon's Negative Manicheism D. Vance Smith; 2. 'The noblest blood God ever
made': W. E. B. Du Bois's Medievalism in the Contexts of the World Wars
Cord J. Whitaker; 3. Ernst Kantorowicz, Carl Schmitt, and the University of
California Regents Nancy van Deusen; 4. Hannah Arendt's Middle Ages for the
Left R. D. Perry; Part II. Arts: 5. Curtius and Jung: Commonplaces,
Archetypes, and Literature's Collective Unconscious Emily V. Thornbury; 6.
Old English at the Midcentury: Poetry, Scholarship, and Fiction in Britain
in the 1940s and 1950s Clare A. Lees; 7. Erwin Panofsky's Neo-Kantian
Humanism and the Purported Relation between Gothic Architecture and
Scholasticism C. Oliver O'Donnell; 8. 'Are women human?': Authority,
Gender, and Dante in Dorothy L. Sayers's Scholarship Helen Brookman; Part
III. Epochs: 9. Periodization Trouble: Auerbach, Huizinga, and the Question
of Medieval Realism Jane O. Newman; 10. Medieval Mysticism and the Making
of Simone Weil Anna Kelner; 11. Hermeneutics and the Medieval Horizon:
Zumthor, Jauss, Barthes, and Gadamer Benjamin A. Saltzman; Afterword Martin
Jay; Bibliography; Index.