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The Secret in Medieval Literature

- Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages
Af: Albrecht Classen Engelsk Paperback

The Secret in Medieval Literature

- Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages
Af: Albrecht Classen Engelsk Paperback
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The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At first sight, we might believe that we face elements from fairy tales, but the medieval cases discussed here go far beyond such a simplistic approach to the mysterious dimension of secrets. In fact, as this book argues, medieval poets commonly engaged with alternative forces and described their workings within the human context (both in the Latin West and in the East), without being able to come to terms with them critically. Those mysteries appear both in heroic epics and courtly romances, among other genres, and they figure more frequently than we might have assumed. On the one hand, we could conceive of those secrets as the product of literary liberties and imagination; on the other, those secrets prove to be rather serious agents intervening in the lives of the fictional protagonists. By the same token, our modern world is not all rationality and material conditions either. The study of secrets in the Middle Ages thus opens the pathway toward a new epistemology both for the people in the pre-modern age and us today.

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The Secret in Medieval Literature: Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages explores the many strange phenomena, both in the Middle Ages and today, that do not find any good rational explanations. Those do not pertain to magic or to religion in the traditional sense of the word; they are secrets of an epistemological kind and tend to defy human rationality, without being marginal or irrelevant. At first sight, we might believe that we face elements from fairy tales, but the medieval cases discussed here go far beyond such a simplistic approach to the mysterious dimension of secrets. In fact, as this book argues, medieval poets commonly engaged with alternative forces and described their workings within the human context (both in the Latin West and in the East), without being able to come to terms with them critically. Those mysteries appear both in heroic epics and courtly romances, among other genres, and they figure more frequently than we might have assumed. On the one hand, we could conceive of those secrets as the product of literary liberties and imagination; on the other, those secrets prove to be rather serious agents intervening in the lives of the fictional protagonists. By the same token, our modern world is not all rationality and material conditions either. The study of secrets in the Middle Ages thus opens the pathway toward a new epistemology both for the people in the pre-modern age and us today.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 294
ISBN-13: 9781666917888
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1666917885
Kategori: Antikken & Middelalder
Udg. Dato: 15 maj 2024
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 151mm
Højde: 227mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 15 maj 2024
Forfatter(e): Albrecht Classen
Forfatter(e) Albrecht Classen

Kategori Antikken & Middelalder

ISBN-13 9781666917888

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 294

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 151mm

Højde 227mm

Udg. Dato 15 maj 2024

Oplagsdato 15 maj 2024

Forlag Lexington Books

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