Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700-1600

by Kathryn Starkey and Jutta Eming

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700-1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig's Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim's letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111358658
• ISBN13: 9783111358659
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"