Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004706323 |
| ISBN10: | 9004706321 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
The Elements in the Medieval World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Earth
Series:
Elements, Nature, Environment;
2;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 28 November 2024
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Short description:
This groundbreaking book, one of four on the ?Elements?, presents interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of ?Earth? in the Middle Ages, ranging geographically across Europe and beyond and chronologically from the late antique period to the late Middle Ages.
Long description:
The fourteen chapters and poem of this volume reflect the centrality of the element Earth in medieval thought and life, a centrality inherited from classical antiquity, and fundamental too in Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. The chapters also reflect the multifarious nature of the ways that Earth was experienced and understood in the Middle Ages.
Contributors are Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Daniel Anlezark, Marilina Cesario, Catherine Clarke, James Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Virginia Iommi Echeverría, Andrew Fear, Danielle B. Joyner, Hugh Magennis, Francesco Marzella, Tom C.B. McLeish, Patrick Naeve, Bernard O?Donoghue, Sinéad O?Sullivan, Alexandra Paddock, Elisa Ramazzina, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbj?rn O. S?nnesyn, Sinéad O?Sullivan, and Margaret Tedford.
Contributors are Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Daniel Anlezark, Marilina Cesario, Catherine Clarke, James Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Virginia Iommi Echeverría, Andrew Fear, Danielle B. Joyner, Hugh Magennis, Francesco Marzella, Tom C.B. McLeish, Patrick Naeve, Bernard O?Donoghue, Sinéad O?Sullivan, Alexandra Paddock, Elisa Ramazzina, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbj?rn O. S?nnesyn, Sinéad O?Sullivan, and Margaret Tedford.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Marilina Cesario, Hugh Magennis and Elisa Ramazzina
1 Isidore of Seville and the Bounty of the Earth
Andrew Fear
2 The Transmutation of the Elemental Idea: the Metaphorical, Mathematical and Material Alchemy of Robert Grosseteste
Tom C.B. McLeish, Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Sigbj?rn O. S?nnesyn and Hannah E. Smithson
3 Shaking the Foundations: Reading Earthquakes in Byzantine and Chinese Sources
Marilina Cesario
4 The Oikoumen? and the Carolingian Reception of Virgil
Sinéad O?Sullivan
5 Ci? forma di la Terra il gran tumore: Cecco d?Ascoli and the Disposition of Dry Land in Medieval Cosmological Literature
Virginia Iommi Echeverría
6 Terra, the Arts, and Spiritual Ecologies
Danielle B. Joyner
7 De terra et partibus: Visions of the Earth in Medieval Mapping, c. 800?1300
Margaret Tedford
8 Thinking with Mud: Dirt, Imagination and Early Medieval English Culture
Catherine A.M. Clarke
9 Mudbricks and Egyptian Monks: Some Critical Musings on Earthen Entanglements
Stephen J. Davis
10 Maintaining the Earth: Soil Management and Sustainability in Medieval Agricultural Manuals
James Davis
11 Life in Earth: Animal Relations with Earth in the Physiologus, Bestiaries and Early Medieval Riddles
Alexandra Paddock
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Marilina Cesario, Hugh Magennis and Elisa Ramazzina
Part 1: Foundations of the Earth
1 Isidore of Seville and the Bounty of the Earth
Andrew Fear
2 The Transmutation of the Elemental Idea: the Metaphorical, Mathematical and Material Alchemy of Robert Grosseteste
Tom C.B. McLeish, Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Sigbj?rn O. S?nnesyn and Hannah E. Smithson
3 Shaking the Foundations: Reading Earthquakes in Byzantine and Chinese Sources
Marilina Cesario
Part 2: Reception of the Earth
4 The Oikoumen? and the Carolingian Reception of Virgil
Sinéad O?Sullivan
5 Ci? forma di la Terra il gran tumore: Cecco d?Ascoli and the Disposition of Dry Land in Medieval Cosmological Literature
Virginia Iommi Echeverría
6 Terra, the Arts, and Spiritual Ecologies
Danielle B. Joyner
7 De terra et partibus: Visions of the Earth in Medieval Mapping, c. 800?1300
Margaret Tedford
Part 3: Materiality of the Earth
8 Thinking with Mud: Dirt, Imagination and Early Medieval English Culture
Catherine A.M. Clarke
9 Mudbricks and Egyptian Monks: Some Critical Musings on Earthen Entanglements
Stephen J. Davis
10 Maintaining the Earth: Soil Management and Sustainability in Medieval Agricultural Manuals
James Davis
11 Life in Earth: Animal Relations with Earth in the Physiologus, Bestiaries and Early Medieval Riddles
Alexandra Paddock
