Mediality in the Middle Ages

Abundance and Lack
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-64189-075-5
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Medieval Media and Culture

In medieval culture, media forms were places
of mediated immediacy. They transported a
presence of the divine, but also knowledge of
its unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinating
approaches of medieval authors to the word
and writing, the body and materiality, and
their experimentation with the possibilities
of media before the concept was invented.
The book presents, for the first time, a
coherent, tightly argued history of medieval
mediality, which also casts a new light on
modern thinking about the medial.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kiening, Christian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barfoot, Nicola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Model
3. Presence
4. Word
5. Writing
6. Body
7. Materiality
8. Spacetime
9. Metonymy
10. Conclusion
References
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kiening, Christian
Christian Kiening is full professor of German literature at the University of Zürich and director of the National Competence Centre in Research “Mediality”.