TY - BOOK AU - Amit,Orly AU - Bibring,Tovi AU - Casebier,Karen Casey AU - Classen,Albrecht AU - Franzon,Serena AU - Khalifa-Gueta,Sharon AU - Nissim,Dafna AU - Refael-Vivante,Revital AU - Shemesh,Avia AU - Tohar,Vered AU - Williams,Anne L. TI - Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images: Culture, Society and Reception T2 - Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , SN - 9783111243566 AV - D117 .B57 2024 U1 - 940.1 23/eng/20240229 PY - 2023///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - DLC KW - Europa KW - Frühe Neuzeit KW - Rezeptionsforschung KW - Vormoderne+Kultur KW - verschwommene Grenzen KW - HISTORY / Medieval KW - bisacsh KW - Early Modern Ages KW - Reception Studies KW - burred boundaries KW - pre-modern Europe KW - pre-modern culture N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; Blurred Boundaries in Pre-Modern Texts and Images: Aspects of Audiences and Readers-Viewers Responses --; The Sacred and the Profane in German Courtly Romances and Late Medieval Verse Narratives: With an Emphasis on Ulrich Bonerius and Heinrich Kaufringer --; The Poetic and Ideological Blurring of Boundaries in the Jewish Book of Ethics Orḥot Ṣaddiqim --; Laughing at Death: Blurred Boundaries in Giotto’s Last Judgment --; The Popular in Service of the Sacred: The Sculpted Musicians of Santiago de Compostela --; Image and Legend of Saint Margaret as an Aid in Childbirth Rituals --; Violent Women and the Blurring of Gender in some Medieval Narratives --; On the Heavenly and the Earthly, the Secular as Sacred – A New Reading of Medieval Hebrew Fables --; The Secular and the Sacred in a Bifolio from Louis of Laval’s Book of Hours and Its Spiritual Use --; Between Psalter and “Mirrors for Princes”: On the Moral and Didactic Messages in BL Cotton MS Domitian A XVII --; Visual and Textual Authority: Reading Chevalier in Manuscripts of La Vie des pères --; Aspects of Italian and Flemish Identity in Relation to Book Illumination: Reception of Devotional and Antiquarian Ideas through Depictions of Jewelry --; List of Illustrations --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies.The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111243894 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111243894 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111243894/original ER -