LEADER 04124nam 2200685 450 001 9910465837303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9285-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292855 035 $a(CKB)3710000000649837 035 $a(EBL)4540263 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001675022 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16483890 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001675022 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15015769 035 $a(PQKB)11788318 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4540263 035 $a(DE-B1597)469662 035 $a(OCoLC)947084165 035 $a(OCoLC)979968326 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292855 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4540263 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11222692 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL915498 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000649837 100 $a20160628h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNowhere in the Middle Ages /$fKarma Lochrie 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-4811-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. No Past --$tChapter 1. Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium --$tChapter 2. Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now --$tChapter 3. Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism --$tChapter 4. "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball --$tChapter 5. Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aLiterary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today. Drawing on a range of contemporary scholarship on utopianism and a broad premodern archive, Lochrie charts variant utopian strains in medieval literature and philosophy that diverge from More's work and at the same time plot uncanny connections with it. Examining works such as Macrobius's fifth-century Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, Mandeville's Travels, and William Langland's Piers Plowman, she finds evidence of a number of utopian drives, including the rejection of European centrality, a desire for more egalitarian politics, and a rethinking of the division between animals and humans. Nowhere in the Middle Ages insists on the relevance and transformative potential of medieval utopias for More's work and positions the sixteenth-century text as one alternative in a broader historical phenomenon of utopian thinking. Tracing medieval utopianisms forward in literary history to reveal their influences on early modern and modern literature and philosophy, Lochrie demonstrates that looking backward, we might extend future horizons of utopian thinking. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aUtopias in literature 606 $aUtopias$xHistory 606 $aUtopias$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUtopias in literature. 615 0$aUtopias$xHistory. 615 0$aUtopias$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.93372 700 $aLochrie$b Karma$0883021 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465837303321 996 $aNowhere in the Middle Ages$92460109 997 $aUNINA