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The book of nature and humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Title

The book of nature and humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by David Hawkes, Richard G. Newhauser, with the assistance of Nathaniel Bump.

Author

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Annual Conference (2010 : Arizona State University), creator.

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, [2013]
©2013

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Description

xxv, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Some modern commentators welcome the alleged approach of the "post-human" era as a liberation from the constraints of essentialist identity. Others lament it as a harbinger of the death of the soul. But both groups will find it instructive to consider that the nature of humanity has always been a contested topic. The chapters collected here suggest that the emergence of the modern idea of the human was at least as fraught a process as its putative demise. David Hawkes and Richard G. Newhauser have selected a wide array of contributions for this volume. Renowned scholars from several disciplines have produced a series of fascinating essays, which concentrate on the relation between humanity and nature as it was understood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The issues they examine range from poaching to flatulence, from Aztec animal symbolism to Jesus's grandmother, from tulips to the Trinity. Some chapters examine a wide variety of popular texts, from the bloody legend of Robert the Devil to the sinister magic of the Anglo-Saxon "wen charm," from Lutheran Books of Nature to Emperor Maximillian's wedding. The result is a book that raises intriguing implications for the modern struggle over the meaning of mankind."--

Series Statement

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 29

Uniform Title

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 29.

Alternative Title

Nature and humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Humanity and the natural world in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
History
Konferenser.

Note

"All of the contributions to the volume were revised and expanded from the form in which they were first presented at the 16th Annual ACMRS Conference on "Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance" in February, 2010, at Arizona State University"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Landscapes -- The human body -- The body politic -- The animal body -- Ethnoscapes.

ISBN

9782503549217
2503549217
9782503549972 (canceled/invalid)
2503549977 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

9782503549217

OCLC

ocn858313045
858313045
SCSB-1757683

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library