In Orientalism, Edward Said constructed an entire theoretical ediface on an imagined, unified pre-modern Middle Ages in Europe. One of the results of this has been that scholars in medieval and early modern studies have been critically assessing the uses of post-colonial and subaltern theoretical perspectives in their fields, and considering what their periods have to say to post-colonial theorists. This book offers a series of essays that explore with specificity the methodological, textual, cultural and historiographic moves required for post-colonial engagements with pre-modern times.
In Orientalism, Edward Said constructed an entire theoretical ediface on an imagined, unified pre-modern Middle Ages in Europe. One of the results of ...
Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving as a means to adjudicate the ethics of invention and opening thorny questions of creativity and desire.
The Medieval New...
Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosoph...
