Cover of Kiening Christian Kiening, Barfoot Nicola Barfoot (TRN): Mediality in the Middle Ages

Kiening Christian Kiening, Barfoot Nicola Barfoot (TRN) Mediality in the Middle Ages

Abundance and Lack

Price for Eshop: 4645 Kč (€ 185.8)

VAT 0% included

New

E-book delivered electronically online

Annotation

In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and materiality, andtheir experimentation with the possibilitiesof media before the concept was invented.The book presents, for the first time, acoherent, tightly argued history of medievalmediality, which also casts a new light onmodern thinking about the medial.

Ask question

You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.