Rachel Fulton / Bruce W. Holsinger (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

History in the Comic Mode

Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person

Herausgeber: Holsinger, Bruce W.; Fulton, Rachel

Beschreibung

Discusses continuity and change in ideas of personhood and community. This book argues for the viability of the comic mode and recovery of history. It features close readings of familiar and lesser known materials, offering provocative interpretations of John of Rupescissa's alchemym.

Autor

Rachel Fulton is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200, and she is currently studying the making of prayer in the medieval West, with special emphasis on prayer to the Virgin Mother of God.Bruce Holsinger is professor of English and music at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer, as well as The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. He is writing a book on liturgy and vernacularity in premodern England. Fulton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her Ph.D. is from Columbia. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion (Columbia, 2002), which won the Journal of the History of Ideas Morris D. Forkorsch Prize.Holsinger is Professor of English and Music at the University of Virginia. His Ph.D. is from Columbia. He is the author of Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (Stanford, 2002), which won the AMS's Philip Brett Award, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and the Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize, and of Premodernities: Archaeology of an Avant-Garde (Chicago, 2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 237mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780231133685
• ISBN-10: 0231133685
• Artikelnr.: 22536586