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Mediality in the Middle Ages : Abundance and Lack / Christian Kiening.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval Media CulturesPublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781641890762
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 091 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Model -- Chapter 3. Presence -- Chapter 4. Word -- Chapter 5. Writing -- Chapter 6. Body -- Chapter 7. Materiality -- Chapter 8. Spacetime -- Chapter 9. Metonymy -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index (authors and anonymous works, without biblical books)
Summary: In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and materiality, andtheir experimentation with the possibilitiesof media before the concept was invented.The book presents, for the first time, acoherent, tightly argued history of medievalmediality, which also casts a new light onmodern thinking about the medial.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781641890762

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Model -- Chapter 3. Presence -- Chapter 4. Word -- Chapter 5. Writing -- Chapter 6. Body -- Chapter 7. Materiality -- Chapter 8. Spacetime -- Chapter 9. Metonymy -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index (authors and anonymous works, without biblical books)

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In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and materiality, andtheir experimentation with the possibilitiesof media before the concept was invented.The book presents, for the first time, acoherent, tightly argued history of medievalmediality, which also casts a new light onmodern thinking about the medial.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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