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Medieval Textual Cultures

Name: Medieval Textual Cultures
Brand: De Gruyter
SKU: 9783110601381
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Agents of Transmission, Translation and Transformation

Autor: Faith Wallis, Robert Wisnovsky

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Editura: De Gruyter

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Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Faith Wallis, Robert Wisnovsky

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2018

Pagini

223

EAN

9783110601381

ISBN

3110601389

Enbook ID

18999644

Editura

De Gruyter

Greutate

386

Dimensiuni

155 x 230 x 13

Descriere completă

Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the "agents". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes "available" for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated "ecology" of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity.