The Elements in the Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Water: Elements, Nature, Environment, cartea 1
Marilina Cesario, Hugh Magennis, Elisa Ramazzinaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 aug 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004548428
ISBN-10: 9004548424
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Elements, Nature, Environment
ISBN-10: 9004548424
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Elements, Nature, Environment
Notă biografică
Marilina Cesario holds a Ph.D in medieval studies from the University of Manchester (2009). She is currently Reader in the Earliest Writings in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. She has published in the fields of early medieval weather and astronomy, prognostication, reception of classical mythology in the early Middle Ages, and on manuscript studies. She is the editor with H. Magennis of Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages (2018).
Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published widely on Old English and related literature, specialising particularly in saints’ lives, translation and poetic tradition. Among his publications are The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Translating Beowulf (both 2011) and, most recently, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints (2020) (with J. Kramer and R. Norris). Hugh Magennis is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the English Association.
Elisa Ramazzina received her doctorate in Germanic Philology from the University of Paiva. Her research focuses on medieval landscape and natural world, particularly water, and has published in the fields of early medieval English poetry, meteorology, monster studies, medieval medicine and ecocriticism.
Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University Belfast. He has published widely on Old English and related literature, specialising particularly in saints’ lives, translation and poetic tradition. Among his publications are The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Translating Beowulf (both 2011) and, most recently, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints (2020) (with J. Kramer and R. Norris). Hugh Magennis is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the English Association.
Elisa Ramazzina received her doctorate in Germanic Philology from the University of Paiva. Her research focuses on medieval landscape and natural world, particularly water, and has published in the fields of early medieval English poetry, meteorology, monster studies, medieval medicine and ecocriticism.
Cuprins
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, Sigbjørn O. Sønnesyn and Hannah E. Smithson
3 Shaking the Foundations: Reading Earthquakes in Byzantine and Chinese Sources
Marilina Cesario
4 The Oikoumenē and the Carolingian Reception of Virgil
Sinéad O’Sullivan
5 Ciò 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, Sigbjørn O. Sønnesyn 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 Oikoumenē and the Carolingian Reception of Virgil
Sinéad O’Sullivan
5 Ciò 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