- Publisher: Pennsylvania UP
- Year: 2015
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 286pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 237x160mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.6kg
- ISBN: 9780812247060
- Product code: 517163
The Medieval New
Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation
Patricia Clare Ingham New Hardback Illustrated
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Aiming to ‘reopen the entire question of the status of the new in medieval culture’, Professor Ingham challenges the view that associates the Middle Ages with conservatism and explores the medieval ambivalence about newness and novelty in literary, philosophical, scientific and religious discourses in the period from the 12th to 16th centuries.
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Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving as a means to adjudicate the ethics of invention and opening thorny questions of creativity and desire.
The Medieval New concentrates on the preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Examining a range of evidence, from the writings of Roger Bacon and Geoffrey Chaucer to the letters of Christopher Columbus, and attending to histories of children's toys, the man-made marvels of romance, the utopian aims of alchemists, and the definitional precision of the scholastics, Ingham analyzes the ethical ambivalence with which medieval thinkers approached the category of the new. With its broad reconsideration of what the "newfangled" meant in the Middle Ages, The Medieval New offers an alternative to histories that continue to associate the medieval era with conservation rather than with novelty, its benefits and liabilities. Calling into question present-day assumptions about newness, Ingham's study demonstrates the continued relevance of humanistic inquiry in the so-called traditional disciplines of contemporary scholarship.
The Medieval New concentrates on the preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Examining a range of evidence, from the writings of Roger Bacon and Geoffrey Chaucer to the letters of Christopher Columbus, and attending to histories of children's toys, the man-made marvels of romance, the utopian aims of alchemists, and the definitional precision of the scholastics, Ingham analyzes the ethical ambivalence with which medieval thinkers approached the category of the new. With its broad reconsideration of what the "newfangled" meant in the Middle Ages, The Medieval New offers an alternative to histories that continue to associate the medieval era with conservation rather than with novelty, its benefits and liabilities. Calling into question present-day assumptions about newness, Ingham's study demonstrates the continued relevance of humanistic inquiry in the so-called traditional disciplines of contemporary scholarship.
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Aiming to ‘reopen the entire question of the status of the new in medieval culture’, Professor Ingham challenges the view that associates the Middle Ages with conservatism and explores the medieval ambivalence about newness and novelty in literary, philosophical, scientific and religious discourses in the period from the 12th to 16th centuries.
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Patricia Clare Ingham
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