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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480825803321

Autore

Kiening Christian

Titolo

Mediality in the Middle Ages : abundance and lack / / Christian Kiening ; translated from the German by Nicola Barfoot [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-64189-076-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Medieval media cultures

Disciplina

940.1

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Manuscripts, Medieval

Art, Medieval - Themes, motives

Christian art and symbolism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Nota di contenuto

Model -- Presence -- Word -- Writing -- Body -- Materiality -- Spacetime -- Metonymy.

Sommario/riassunto

In medieval culture, media forms were places of mediated immediacy. They transported a presence of the divine, but also knowledge of its unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinating approaches of medieval authors to the word and writing, the body and materiality, and their experimentation with the possibilities of media before the concept was invented. The book presents, for the first time, a coherent, tightly argued history of medieval mediality, which also casts a new light on modern thinking about the medial.