Early Modern Medievalisms
The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production
Edited by Alicia C. Montoya, Sophie van Romburgh, and Wim van Anrooij
Status:
€125.00$162.00
Biographical note
Alicia C. Montoya, Ph.D. (2005), University of Leiden, is Rosalind Franklin Fellow in Romance Languages at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She has published on French medievalism, book history and women authors, including Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique (Champion, 2007).
Sophie van Romburgh, Ph.D. (2002), University of Leiden, is a lecturer in English philology at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). She studies early modern scholarship on medieval Germanic literature, and has published the correspondence of Francis Junius (Brill, 2004).
Wim van Anrooij, Ph.D. (1990) in philology, University of Leiden, is Professor of Dutch Literature until Romanticism at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published on heralds and heraldic poetry, the Nine Worthies and medieval miscellanies.
Sophie van Romburgh, Ph.D. (2002), University of Leiden, is a lecturer in English philology at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). She studies early modern scholarship on medieval Germanic literature, and has published the correspondence of Francis Junius (Brill, 2004).
Wim van Anrooij, Ph.D. (1990) in philology, University of Leiden, is Professor of Dutch Literature until Romanticism at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published on heralds and heraldic poetry, the Nine Worthies and medieval miscellanies.
Readership
All those interested in medieval and early modern literature and intellectual history (particularly French, Italian and Netherlandish), as well as art historians and musicologists.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Questioning Early Modern Medievalisms
ALICIA C. MONTOYA, SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH, WIM VAN ANROOIJ
Continuities and Discontinuities between the Medieval and the Early Modern
‘I Desire Therefore I Am’: Petrarch’s Canzoniere between the Medieval and the Modern Notion of Desire
ELENA F. LOMBARDI
Medievalisms in Latin Love Poetry of the Early Italian Quattrocento
CHRISTOPH PIEPER
On Pleasure: Conceptions in Badius’s Stultiferae Naves (1501)
ANNE-MARIE DE GENDT
From Historical Invention to Literary Myth: Ambivalences and Contradictions in the Early Modern Reception of the Franco-Trojan Genealogy
TIPHAINE KARSENTI
Early Modern Angelic Song in Francesco Patrizi’s L’Amorosa Filosofia (1577)
JACOMIEN PRINS
Invoking the Medieval: Between Scholarship and Artistic Production
Rabelaisian Medievalisms: Pantagruel and Amadis
PAUL J. SMITH
The Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey and her Son: Iconographic Medievalism as a Legitimation Strategy
MARTIN SPIES
Medieval Tradition Presented in Early Modern Paintings and Inscriptions in Little Poland
WALDEMAR KOWALSKI
‘O Fundatrix Begginarum’: St. Begga and her Office in Early Modern Beguine Scholarship and Musical Sources
PIETER MANNAERTS
Medievalism and Magic: Illustrating Classical French Fairy Tales
DAPHNE HOOGENBOEZEM
A Fairy Troubadour? Medieval Matter and the ‘Bon Vieux Temps’ in Women’s Fairy Tales (1730-1750)
AURÉLIE ZYGEL-BASSO
Old French in the Eighteenth Century: Aucassin et Nicolette
PETER DAMIAN-GRINT
Conceptualizing the Medieval
‘Covered in the Thickest Darkness of Forgetfulness’: Humanist Commonplaces and the Defence of Medievalism in Janus Dousa’s Metrical History (1599)
COEN MAAS
Reproducing the Middle Ages: Abbé Jean-Joseph Rive (1730-1791) and the Study of Manuscript Illumination at the Turn of the Early Modern Period
ANDREA WORM
Michelangelo out of Focus: Medievalism as Absent Life in Italian Renaissance Art
JOOST KEIZER
Jean Mabillon’s Middle Ages: On Medievalism, Textual Criticism, and Monastic Ideals
METTE B. BRUUN
The Early Modern Construction of Medieval Jewish Thought
ADAM SHEAR
Index Nominum
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Questioning Early Modern Medievalisms
ALICIA C. MONTOYA, SOPHIE VAN ROMBURGH, WIM VAN ANROOIJ
Continuities and Discontinuities between the Medieval and the Early Modern
‘I Desire Therefore I Am’: Petrarch’s Canzoniere between the Medieval and the Modern Notion of Desire
ELENA F. LOMBARDI
Medievalisms in Latin Love Poetry of the Early Italian Quattrocento
CHRISTOPH PIEPER
On Pleasure: Conceptions in Badius’s Stultiferae Naves (1501)
ANNE-MARIE DE GENDT
From Historical Invention to Literary Myth: Ambivalences and Contradictions in the Early Modern Reception of the Franco-Trojan Genealogy
TIPHAINE KARSENTI
Early Modern Angelic Song in Francesco Patrizi’s L’Amorosa Filosofia (1577)
JACOMIEN PRINS
Invoking the Medieval: Between Scholarship and Artistic Production
Rabelaisian Medievalisms: Pantagruel and Amadis
PAUL J. SMITH
The Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey and her Son: Iconographic Medievalism as a Legitimation Strategy
MARTIN SPIES
Medieval Tradition Presented in Early Modern Paintings and Inscriptions in Little Poland
WALDEMAR KOWALSKI
‘O Fundatrix Begginarum’: St. Begga and her Office in Early Modern Beguine Scholarship and Musical Sources
PIETER MANNAERTS
Medievalism and Magic: Illustrating Classical French Fairy Tales
DAPHNE HOOGENBOEZEM
A Fairy Troubadour? Medieval Matter and the ‘Bon Vieux Temps’ in Women’s Fairy Tales (1730-1750)
AURÉLIE ZYGEL-BASSO
Old French in the Eighteenth Century: Aucassin et Nicolette
PETER DAMIAN-GRINT
Conceptualizing the Medieval
‘Covered in the Thickest Darkness of Forgetfulness’: Humanist Commonplaces and the Defence of Medievalism in Janus Dousa’s Metrical History (1599)
COEN MAAS
Reproducing the Middle Ages: Abbé Jean-Joseph Rive (1730-1791) and the Study of Manuscript Illumination at the Turn of the Early Modern Period
ANDREA WORM
Michelangelo out of Focus: Medievalism as Absent Life in Italian Renaissance Art
JOOST KEIZER
Jean Mabillon’s Middle Ages: On Medievalism, Textual Criticism, and Monastic Ideals
METTE B. BRUUN
The Early Modern Construction of Medieval Jewish Thought
ADAM SHEAR
Index Nominum
€125.00$171.00
Discussing medieval and early modern 'disembodied heads' this collection questions the why and how of the primacy of the head in the bodily hierarchy during the premodern period. On the basis of beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, they come to an ‘cultural anatomy’ of the head.
€136.00$189.00
Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves
€168.00$234.00
This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of sensation in the religious transformations of early modern Europe. Sensation was both central to the doctrinal disputes of the Reformation and critical in shaping new or reformed devotional practices.
€217.00$297.00
Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought.
€105.00$144.00
The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and ...
€133.00$182.00
Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe’s most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in which spiritual transformations and exchanges of religious identities were given meaning.
€133.00$179.00
Bringing together contributions from art history, architectural history, historiography and history of law, this volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the manifold meanings of foundation, dedication and consecration rituals and narratives in early modern culture.
€99.00$136.00
This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts.
€179.00$245.00
This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.
€109.00$149.00
Including contributions by historians of early modern European art, architecture, and literature, this book examines the transformative force of the vernacular over time and different regions, as well as the way the concept of the vernacular itself changes in the period.
- 1 of 3
- ››
No additional information