The Elements in the Medieval World : Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Earth (Elements, Nature, Environment)

Cesario, Marilina (EDT)/ Magennis, Hugh (EDT)/ Ramazzina, Elisa (EDT)

Brill（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 442 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004706323

Full Description

The fourteen chapters and poem of this volume reflect the centrality of the element Earth in medieval thought and life, a centrality inherited from classical antiquity, and fundamental too in Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. The chapters also reflect the multifarious nature of the ways that Earth was experienced and understood in the Middle Ages.

Contributors are Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Daniel Anlezark, Marilina Cesario, Catherine Clarke, James Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Virginia Iommi Echeverría, Andrew Fear, Danielle B. Joyner, Hugh Magennis, Francesco Marzella, Tom C.B. McLeish, Patrick Naeve, Bernard O'Donoghue, Sinéad O'Sullivan, Alexandra Paddock, Elisa Ramazzina, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbjørn O. Sønnesyn, Sinéad O'Sullivan, and Margaret Tedford.

Contents

Foreword

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

­Introduction

­ Marilina ­Cesario, ­Hugh ­Magennis and ­Elisa ­Ramazzina

­Part 1: Foundations of the ­Earth

1 ­Isidore of ­Seville and the ­Bounty of the ­Earth

­ Andrew ­Fear

2 The ­Transmutation of the ­­Elemental ­Idea: the ­Metaphorical, ­Mathematical and ­Material ­Alchemy of ­Robert ­Grosseteste

­ Tom C.B. ­McLeish, ­Sophie E.D. ­Abrahams, ­Sigbjørn O. ­Sønnesyn and ­Hannah E. ­Smithson

3 Shaking the ­Foundations: ­Reading ­Earthquakes in ­Byzantine and ­Chinese ­Sources

­ Marilina ­Cesario

­Part 2: Reception of the ­Earth

4 The ­Oikoumenē and the ­Carolingian ­Reception of ­Virgil

­ Sinéad O'­Sullivan

5 Ciò forma di la Terra il gran tumore: Cecco d'Ascoli and the Disposition of Dry Land in Medieval Cosmological Literature

 Virginia Iommi Echeverría

6 Terra, the ­Arts, and ­Spiritual ­Ecologies

­ Danielle B. ­Joyner

7 ­De terra et partibus: ­Visions of the ­Earth in ­Medieval ­Mapping, c. 800-1300

­ Margaret ­Tedford

­Part 3: Materiality of the ­Earth

8 ­Thinking with ­Mud: ­Dirt, ­Imagination and ­Early ­Medieval ­English ­Culture

­ Catherine A.M. ­Clarke

9 Mudbricks and Egyptian Monks: Some Critical Musings on Earthen Entanglements

 Stephen J. Davis

10 Maintaining the ­Earth: ­Soil ­Management and ­Sustainability in ­Medieval ­Agricultural ­Manuals

­ James ­Davis

11 ­Life in ­Earth: ­Animal ­Relations with ­Earth in the ­Physiologus, ­Bestiaries and ­Early ­Medieval ­Riddles

­ Alexandra ­Paddock