UID:
almafu_9959231230002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxix, 295 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-283-12040-2
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9786613120403
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90-04-19225-5
Series Statement:
Visualising the Middle Ages, v. 3
Content:
Twelfth-century individuals negotiated personal relationships along a continuum connecting rather than polarizing immediacy and mediated representation. Their markers of individuation, signs of identity and media of communication thus evidence practical engagement with contemporary medieval sign theory and perceptions of reality. In this study, the relevance of modern theory for the interpretation of medieval artifacts is shown to depend upon the parallel existence of theoretical activity by the producers and users of such artifacts. In the cultural landscape of the central Middle Ages, the axes of iconicity, semantics and materiality traced by charters, seals, and by both concrete and metaphorical images of the imprint, dynamically shaped the boundaries within which a sense of self was formulated, modulated, experienced, and enacted.
Note:
pt. 1. Sources and methods -- pt. 2. Imago -- pt. 3. Ego.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-19217-4
Language:
English
