Stephen G. Nichols
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
An charakteristischen Einzelfällen erörtern die Beiträge grundsätzliche Fragen einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Mediävistik (Philologien, Geschichtswissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte). Das Spektrum reicht von historischen Ritualen über bildliche Darstellungen als Medien der Politik, anthropologischen Mustern bis hin zur Analyse einzelner literarischer Texte. Schwerpunkte sind Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien. Die Beiträger...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach - combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines, the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness, the five senses, the role of memory and passions, in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval...
3) Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception?
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means - either orally or by hand - inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within the disciplinary framework of comparative literature and...