UID:
almahu_9949701989502882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004192256
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2011
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.
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Preliminary Material /
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Chapter One. Beyond The Text: Medieval Documentary Practices /
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Chapter Two. Toward An Archaeology Of The Medieval Charter /
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Chapter Three. Sign Theory, Medieval And Modern /
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Chapter Four. The King's Sign /
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Chapter Five. Eucharistic Theology And Episcopal Signature /
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Chapter Six. Medieval Identity: Subject, Object, Agency /
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Chapter Seven. Images Of Identity And The Identity Of Images /
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Chapter Eight. Difformitas: Invective, Individuality, Identity /
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Chapter Nine. The Semiotics Of Personality In The Middle Ages /
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Conclusion /
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Bibliography /
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Index /
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Plates /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004192171 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004192174 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004192256 (electronic book)
Language:
English
