Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative Contexts
Redaktion: Bintley, Michael; Salonius, Pippa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.

Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world.

The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805432623
• Artikelnr.: 70257695

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Surrounding Forest - Michael D. J. Bintley and Pippa
Salonius 1. Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of T¿ne - Pippa
Salonius 2. Beowulf's Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early
Medieval England - Michael D. J. Bintley 3. Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering
Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture - Meg Boulton 4.
'Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre':
Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend - Laura
Chuhan Campbell 5. The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the
Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge -
José Higuera Rubio 6. From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as
Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages - Naïs Virenque 7. The Vegetal
Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit - Pauline
Leplongeon 8. Adam's Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic
Cosmology - Samer Akkach Concluding Reflections