TCNE 23 The Playful Middle Ages Hardwick: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning, Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, Band 23) - Hardcover

 
9782503528809: TCNE 23 The Playful Middle Ages Hardwick: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning, Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, Band 23)
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ISBN 10: 2503528805 ISBN 13: 9782503528809
Verlag: BREPOLS PUBL, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles thesometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane.

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Verlag
BREPOLS PUBL
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
2503528805
ISBN 13 
9782503528809
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
243
Herausgeber
Hardwick Paul
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