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ISBN: 9783110776874

Series Statement: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 26

Content: Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, religions, and cultures. Beyond that, as the contributors to this volume underscore, people have always endeavored to reach out to their community members, that is, to build community, to learn from each other, and to teach. Hence, this volume explores the meaning of communication, translation, and community building based on the medium of language. While all these aspects have already been discussed in many different venues, the contributors endeavor to explore a host of heretofore less considered historical, religious, literary, political, and linguistic sources. While the dominant focus tends to rest on conflicts, hostility, and animosity in the pre-modern age, here the emphasis rests on communication with its myriad of challenges and potentials for establishing a community. As the various studies illustrate, a close reading of communicative issues opens profound perspectives regarding human relationships and hence the social context. This understanding invites intensive collaboration between medical historians, literary scholars, translation experts, and specialists on religious conflicts and discourses. We also learn how much language carries tremendous cultural and social meaning and determines in a most sensitive manner the interactions among people in a communicative and community-based fashion.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Introduction: An Essay on Language, Culture, and Identity: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on and Approaches to Communication, Translation, and Community -- , Ways of Communication and Mis/communication in Abū Tammām’s “Ode on the Conquest of Amorium” (838 C.E.) -- , Proscribed Communication: The Obscene Language of the Troubadour William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and VII Count of Poitiers -- , (Non)-Imaginary Ideal Communities in the Pre-Modern World: A Reading in the Utopian Works of al-Fārābi’, Ibn Khaldūn, Christine de Pizan, and Thomas More -- , A Jewish Moneylender, Miscommunication, and a Lie: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagro no. 23 -- , Words, Signs, Meanings: William Langland’s Piers Plowman as a Window on Linguistic Chaos -- , The Chaucerian Translator -- , Entertainment, Laughter, and Reflections as a Training Ground for Communication in Public and Private: The Case of Heinrich Kaufringer, ca. 1400 -- , …written in my own Jewish hand -- , Demonic Operators: Forbidden Relations in Medieval Communication -- , Paroemiac Expressions: A Touch of Color in the Ambassadors’ Diplomatic Correspondence in the Fifteenth Century -- , Communication and Translation in Early Modern Basque Society. The Role Played by the Public Notaries -- , Preventing Miscommunication: Early Modern German Surgeons as Specialized Translators -- , Reputation and Authority in the Physicians’ Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech-Language Sources of the Early Modern Period -- , The Physicians’ Community in Pre-Thirty Years’ War Bohemia -- , A Bond of True Love: Performing Courtship and Betrothal in Gower’s Cinkante balades and Spenser’s Amoretti, in Light of Christine de Pizan’s Cent balades -- , Noble Friendship in Relation to the Community: Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice -- , Deconstructing the (Mis)Interpretation of Paratextual Elements in Ross’s English Translation of the Qur’ān, The Alcoran of Mahomet (1649) -- , Community and the Others: Unveiling Boundaries in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice -- , Biographies of the Contributors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

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Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

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ISBN: 9783111387635

Series Statement: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 29

Content: The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , Nature and Human Society in the Pre-Modern World -- , Unnatural Humans: The Misbegotten Monsters of Beowulf -- , Natural Environment in the Old English Orosius: Ohthere’s Travel Accounts in Norway -- , When Is a Good Time? Health Advice and the Months of the Year -- , Humans Serving Nature: Beekeeping and Bee Products in Piero de Crescenzi’s Ruralia commoda -- , Medieval Epistemology and the Perception of Nature: From the Physiologus to John of Garland and the Niederrheinische Orientbericht. Bestiaries and the ‘Book of Nature’ -- , Waste, Excess, and Profligacy as Critiques of Authority in Fourteenth-Century English Literature -- , “A New Flood Was Released from the Heavens”: The Literary Responses to the Disaster of 1333 -- , The Environmental Causes of the Plague and their Terminology in the German Pestbücher of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- , Island, Grove, Bark, and Pith: Nature Metaphors in Teresa de Cartagena -- , Nature, Art, and Human Perception in Giulio Romano’s Room of the Giants at the Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1532–1535) -- , Human Body, Natural Causes, and Aging of the World in Czech-Language Sources of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period -- , Perception of Air Quality in the Czech Lands of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- , Johann Arndt’s Book of Nature: Medieval Ideas During the German Reformation -- , Imitation vs. Allegorization: Martin Opitz’s Influential Proposal Concerning Poetic Reflections on Nature -- , François Bernier and Nature in Kashmir: Belonging in Paradise? -- , Cosmology and Pre-Modern Anthropology -- , Praising Perchta as the Embodiment of Nature’s Cycles: Worship and Demonization of Perchta and Holda in Medieval and Early Modern Culture -- , List of Illustrations -- , Biographies of the Contributors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

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Series Statement: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 26

Content: Literature serves many purposes, and one of them certainly proves to be to convey messages, wisdom, and instruction, and this across languages, religions, and cultures. Beyond that, as the contributors to this volume underscore, people have always endeavored to reach out to their community members, that is, to build community, to learn from each other, and to teach. Hence, this volume explores the meaning of communication, translation, and community building based on the medium of language. While all these aspects have already been discussed in many different venues, the contributors endeavor to explore a host of heretofore less considered historical, religious, literary, political, and linguistic sources. While the dominant focus tends to rest on conflicts, hostility, and animosity in the pre-modern age, here the emphasis rests on communication with its myriad of challenges and potentials for establishing a community. As the various studies illustrate, a close reading of communicative issues opens profound perspectives regarding human relationships and hence the social context. This understanding invites intensive collaboration between medical historians, literary scholars, translation experts, and specialists on religious conflicts and discourses. We also learn how much language carries tremendous cultural and social meaning and determines in a most sensitive manner the interactions among people in a communicative and community-based fashion.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Introduction: An Essay on Language, Culture, and Identity: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives on and Approaches to Communication, Translation, and Community -- , Ways of Communication and Mis/communication in Abū Tammām's "Ode on the Conquest of Amorium" (838 C.E.) -- , Proscribed Communication: The Obscene Language of the Troubadour William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and VII Count of Poitiers -- , (Non)-Imaginary Ideal Communities in the Pre-Modern World: A Reading in the Utopian Works of al-Fārābi', Ibn Khaldūn, Christine de Pizan, and Thomas More -- , A Jewish Moneylender, Miscommunication, and a Lie: Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagro no. 23 -- , Words, Signs, Meanings: William Langland's Piers Plowman as a Window on Linguistic Chaos -- , The Chaucerian Translator -- , Entertainment, Laughter, and Reflections as a Training Ground for Communication in Public and Private: The Case of Heinrich Kaufringer, ca. 1400 -- , ...written in my own Jewish hand -- , Demonic Operators: Forbidden Relations in Medieval Communication -- , Paroemiac Expressions: A Touch of Color in the Ambassadors' Diplomatic Correspondence in the Fifteenth Century -- , Communication and Translation in Early Modern Basque Society. The Role Played by the Public Notaries -- , Preventing Miscommunication: Early Modern German Surgeons as Specialized Translators -- , Reputation and Authority in the Physicians' Communication with Patients as Reflected in the Czech-Language Sources of the Early Modern Period -- , The Physicians' Community in Pre-Thirty Years' War Bohemia -- , A Bond of True Love: Performing Courtship and Betrothal in Gower's Cinkante balades and Spenser's Amoretti, in Light of Christine de Pizan's Cent balades -- , Noble Friendship in Relation to the Community: Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice -- , Deconstructing the (Mis)Interpretation of Paratextual Elements in Ross's English Translation of the Qur'ān, The Alcoran of Mahomet (1649) -- , Community and the Others: Unveiling Boundaries in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- , Biographies of the Contributors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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