Mediality in the Middle Ages

Abundance and Lack

Autor: Kiening, Christian; Barfoot, Nicola
Editor: Arc Humanities Press
Col·lecció: Medieval Media Cultures
ISBN: 9781641890755
eISBN Pdf: 9781641890762
Lloc de publicació: York , United Kingdom
Any de publicació digital: 2019
Mes: Desembre
Pàgines: 336
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and materiality, andtheir experimentation with the possibilitiesof media before the concept was invented.The book presents, for the first time, acoherent, tightly argued history of medievalmediality, which also casts a new light onmodern thinking about the medial.

Front Cover
Front matter
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
Body
- Chapter 1. Introduction
  - Alterity
  - Inner Logic
  - Abundance and Lack
  - Media Perspectives
  - Historical Mediology
- Chapter 2. Model
  - A Paradoxical Map
  - Christological–Mediological Models and Metaphors
  - High Medieval Systematizations
  - Signs
  - Medium Absolutum
- Chapter 3. Presence
  - Manifestations
  - Christian Reconfigurations
  - Salvific Presence
  - Real Presence
  - Presence Performative
  - Hypermediality and Antimediality
  - Presence of the Passion
  - Complexities
  - Transformations
- Chapter 4. Word
  - Verbum
  - Prayer
  - Patterns and Performances
  - Christian Magic
  - Transfers
  - Performative Aesthetics of Love
  - Materialization
  - Poetic Options
  - Signatures
- Chapter 5. Writing
  - Sublimity
  - Recoding
  - Materiality and Meaning
  - Visibility
  - Performativity
  - Staging
  - Hybridity
  - Old and New Letters
- Chapter 6. Body
  - Body/Medium
  - Stigmata
  - Textures
  - Exemplar
  - The Writer’s Body
  - Self-Observation
- Chapter 7. Materiality
  - Materiality and Transcendence
  - Materials—Circulations—Intensifications
  - Material Meaning
  - A Temple of the Intangible
  - Autoreflexivity
  - New Materiality
- Chapter 8. Spacetime
  - Salvation History and Passion
  - Loca Sancta
  - Transfers
  - Ways and Paths
  - Reconstructions
- Chapter 9. Metonymy
  - Figures and Objects
  - Vera Icon
  - The Robe of Christ
  - Hybridity
  - Questionable Elements
- Chapter 10. Conclusion
  - Mediated Immediacy
  - Writing Systems
  - Once Again: Abundance and Lack
Back matter
- Bibliography
  - Primary Sources
  - Secondary Sources
- Index (authors and anonymous works, without biblical books)