Thinking of the Medieval (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how mid-twentieth-century intellectuals'' engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108803366
• Artikelnr.: 70913050

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.