1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797570003321

Titolo

Handbook of medieval culture . Volume 3 : fundamental aspects and conditions of the European Middle Ages / / edited by Albrecht Classen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-037761-6

3-11-039292-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (748 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter reference

Disciplina

306.0902

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Roads, Streets, Bridges, and Travelers / Classen, Albrecht -- The Rural World and the Peasants / Pigg, Daniel F. -- Saints and Relics / Clever, Christina -- The Senses, the Medieval Sensorium, and Sensing (in) the Middle Ages / Newhauser, Richard G. -- The Sermon in the Middle Ages / Connell, Charles W. -- Ships and Seafaring / Runyan, Timothy -- Threats, Dangers, and Catastrophes / Snook, Ben -- Time and Timekeeping / Mondschein, Ken / Casey, Denis -- Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages / Schmitz-Esser, Romedio -- The Medieval University / Dunphy, Graeme -- War and Peace / Snook, Ben -- Weapons, Warfare, Siege Machinery, and Training in Arms / Mondschein, Ken -- Witchcraft and Superstition / Tuczay, Christa Agnes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- General Index -- Index of Works

Sommario/riassunto

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals,



specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798054603321

Titolo

Utopia : the avant-garde, modernism and (im)possible life / / edited by David Ayers [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-043300-1

3-11-043478-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Collana

European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, , 1869-3393 ; ; Volume 4

Classificazione

EC 5070

Disciplina

700.1/08

Soggetti

Arts, European - Themes, motives

Aesthetics, Modern - Themes, motives

Utopias in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- About the Series - Sur la collection - Zur Buchreihe / Ayers, David / Bru, Sascha -- Introduction -- New People of a New Life / Ayers, David / Hjartarson, Benedikt -- Ideology and Aesthetics -- "Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation" / Cooper, Sam -- World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias / Dijck, Cedric Van / Posman, Sarah / Demoor, Marysa -- Utopia through Art / Brolsma, Marjet -- Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict / Lobbes, Tessa -- Surrealism's Utopian Cartographies / Adamowicz, Elza -- Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen /



Bachman, Erik -- Language Writing's Concrete Utopia / Watten, Barrett -- Rationalism and Redemption -- Magnetic Modernism / Brauer, Fae -- Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics / Jrade, Cathy L. -- Utopie und Apokalypse in der österreichischen Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910-1954) / Ender, Markus / Fürhapter, Ingrid -- Redemption, Utopia and the Avant-Garde / Sjöberg, Sami -- From the "Transparent Stone Age" to the "Space of the Chalice-Cupola" / Baschmakoff, Natalia -- A la recherche d'une sonorité utopique / Petrushanskaya-Averbakh, Elena -- Utopian Dimensions in Pedro Cabrita Reis / Marques, Bruno -- Primitivism, Photomontage, Ethnography / Dittrich, Joshua -- Experimentation and Urban Space -- A Paper Paradise / Armond, Kate -- A Retreat from Everyday Soviet Life / Marchesini, Irina -- Utopian Voyages / Kangaslahti, Kate -- Deconstructing Constructivism in Post-Communist Hungary / Forgács, Éva -- Guerrilla Art in the Streets of Athens / Drakopoulou, Konstantina -- Communities and Education -- Utopian Futures and Imagined Pasts in the Ambivalent Modernism of the Kibbo Kift Kindred / Pollen, Annebella -- New York, Anarchism and Children's Art / Archino, Sarah -- Children's Utopia / Fascist Utopia / Hakopian, Sylvia -- The Future in Modernism / Saunders, Max -- Escape from Utopia / Tokarev, Dmitrii -- Sexuality and Desire -- Erotic Utopia - Free Upbringing, Free Sex and Socialism / Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg -- Faire jouir le système / Lozier, Claire -- The Non-Oedipal Android / Balázs, Imre József -- From Collective Love to Nudism and the Naked City / Stounbjerg, Per -- The Undercut Utopian Worlds of the Russian Pierrot / Toivola, Riku -- Dystopian Visions and Ideas of Death as a Transformation in Gilbert Clavel's An Institute for Suicide / Tanaka, Jun -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Colour Illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present.  The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century. The book's varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: ·  how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?·  how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?·  how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?