Softcover, 17x24In the dominant world-view of the Western Middle Ages, natura evoked divine power as manifested in creation. Nature was an all-pervasive force, synonymous with God and his visible handiwork, but also a cosmic principle associated with fate and predestination in the Neoplatonic tradition. This volume of student essays tackles nature in a range of physical and metaphysical guises, always centred on its representation in medieval English literature. It contains studies of the visible natural world in elegiac, homiletic, and apocalyptic literature, but it also addresses other faces of nature, from the naked human form to the medieval reception of ancient ideas about free will, and closes with a comparative analysis of the nature...
Trees of Thought demonstrates how late medieval English poets used the properties of trees, from the...
Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ec...
Book synopsis: For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with othe...
In this paper, the ways in which the Medieval views of the Universe are treated in the literature of...
Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts...
Book synopsis: An interdisciplinary exploration of the sensory experiences invited and explored by t...
In my dissertation I challenge standing views of the Middle Ages by forging a connection between cur...
What was it like to experience the medieval world through one’s senses? Can we access those past sen...
International audienceThe medieval Latin West has a long tradition of cosmological writings that str...
What was it like to experience the medieval world through one’s senses? Can we access those past sen...
This study explores evidence structures in the medieval investigation of nature, particularly the ma...
Magic and divine intervention as concepts might at first seem to be wholly separate from material go...
This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscri...
Chapter in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500. A Companion to M...
One of the problems in the field of English literature studies is that, with compartmentalization an...
Trees of Thought demonstrates how late medieval English poets used the properties of trees, from the...
Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ec...
Book synopsis: For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with othe...
In this paper, the ways in which the Medieval views of the Universe are treated in the literature of...
Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts...
Book synopsis: An interdisciplinary exploration of the sensory experiences invited and explored by t...
In my dissertation I challenge standing views of the Middle Ages by forging a connection between cur...
What was it like to experience the medieval world through one’s senses? Can we access those past sen...
International audienceThe medieval Latin West has a long tradition of cosmological writings that str...
What was it like to experience the medieval world through one’s senses? Can we access those past sen...
This study explores evidence structures in the medieval investigation of nature, particularly the ma...
Magic and divine intervention as concepts might at first seem to be wholly separate from material go...
This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscri...
Chapter in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350 - c.1500. A Companion to M...
One of the problems in the field of English literature studies is that, with compartmentalization an...
Trees of Thought demonstrates how late medieval English poets used the properties of trees, from the...
Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ec...
Book synopsis: For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with othe...