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Biografisk notat
Dallas G. Denery II is Professor of History at Bowdoin College, USA, specializing in the intellectual and religious history of medieval and early modern Europe. He is the author of The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment (2015) and Seeing and Being Seen in the Late Medieval World: Optics, Theology and Religious Life (2005). His latest book, Everything Is Wrong!, considers what egregiously bad histories can teach us about the nature and purpose of history.PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6
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This volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Reformation, which make up the Middle Ages. Each chapter investigates the ideas and practices associated with a specific theme— knowledge, the human self, ethics, politics, nature, religion, rhetoric, art, and history—in order to reveal the tangle of social, cultural, and religious factors that shaped, and were shaped by, medieval intellectual life. Central to this project is the need to read against the grain, revealing the limits and suppressions in both the medieval sources themselves and more recent scholarship on the period. Taken together, these nine essays, written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, depict the complexities of medieval life and thought, their unique characteristics, and their influence on subsequent centuries.
The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
List of Illustrations
General Editor’s Preface, Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck
Introduction, Dallas G. Denery II
1. Knowledge, Amanda Power
2. The Human Self, Mary Franklin-Brown
3. Ethics and Social Relations, Eileen C. Sweeney
4. Politics and Economies, Cary J. Nederman & Karen Bollermann
5. Nature, Kellie Robertson
6. Religion and the Divine, Claire M. Waters
7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Wesley Chihung Yu
8. The Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart
9. History, Matthew Kempshall
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion
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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales
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A Cultural History of Hair
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A Cultural History of Law
“These introductions should be of great use to scholars from across the periods.”
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A Cultural History of Peace
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A Cultural History of Theatre
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A Cultural History of Tragedy
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A Cultural History of Western Empires
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A Cultural History of Work
“[Programs] such as economics, American and world history, women’s studies, and art history will benefit from the information herein.”
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