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Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero

Degree Zero

Edited by: Babette Hellemans and Alissa Jones Nelson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2018

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Volume 6 | Knowledge Communities

About this book

This collection of essays surveys the richness of creation and creativity in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning between medieval and modern culture.

Author / Editor information

Hellemans Babette :

Babette Hellemans teaches Cultural History and Medieval History at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has published books and articles in English, French and Dutch focusing especially on the French intellectual tradition, the relationship between religion, academic discourse and the anthropology of images.Jones Nelson Alissa :

Alissa Jones Nelson completed her PhD at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics, University of St. Andrews, in 2009. She has published a monograph and several articles focusing on the politics of biblical hermeneutics and postcolonial theory. From 2011-2016, she was the Acquisitions Editor for Religious Studies at De Gruyter. She now works as a freelance writer, editor, and translator. She is based in Berlin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Preface and Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Ouverture Babette Hellemans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Images
1. The Two Bodies of the Virgin Jean-Claude Schmitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
2. The Three Ages of Man and the Materialization of an Allegory Andrea von Hülsen Esch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
3. Lapsus figurae Pierre-Olivier Dittmar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Improvisations
4. Drawing a Line and Questioning Art Nicola Suthor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
5. Fall and Rise Again Irit Ruth Kleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
6. Improvisation as a Chief Pillar of the Poetic Art in Persian Literary Tradition Asghar Seyed Gohrab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Sound
7. Intending the Listener Rokus de Groot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
8. The Sovereign Ear Sander van Maas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
9. Where Sound and Meaning Part Irene Zwiep Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Silence
10. Writing about Silence and the Secret in the Twelfth Century Cédric Giraud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
11. An Arrangement of Silence Theo B. Lap Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
12. Dimidia Hora Burcht Pranger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

August 21, 2018

eBook ISBN:

9789048529186

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

272

Illustrations:

7

Coloured Illustrations:

22

Other:

4 color plates, 16 halftones

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048529186

eBook ISBN: 9789048529186

Keywords for this book

Premodern History; Image; Music; Literature; Anthropology

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Professional and scholarly;

Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero

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