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Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions
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Edited by:
Albrecht Classen
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
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New Approaches to Cultural-Historical and Anthropological Epistemology. Also an Introduction Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Imaginary Creatures Causing Real Diseases: Projective Etiology in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
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Fairies, Mermaids, Undines, Flower Girls, and Nixies as Reflections of Popular Subconsciousness Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Monstra nobiscum: Medieval and Early Modern Teratology and the Confluence of Imaginatio and Scientia
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eBook published on:
August 24, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110693669
Hardcover published on:
August 24, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110692945
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
13
Main content:
807
Illustrations:
9
Coloured Illustrations:
24
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of the Middle Ages and the early modern age, scholars in cultural studies.
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