Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages write by Keagan Brewer. This book was released on 2016-01-29. Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved. Despite living in a world whose structures more often than not supported belief, there were still a great many who disbelieved, most notably scholastic philosophers who began a polemical programme against belief in marvels. Keagan Brewer reevaluates the Middle Ages’ reputation as an era of credulity by considering the evidence for incidences of marvels, miracles and the supernatural and demonstrating the reasons people did and did not believe in such things. Using an array of contemporary sources, he shows that medieval responders sought evidence in the commonality of a report, similarity of one event to another, theological explanations and from people with status to show that those who believed in marvels and miracles did so only because the wonders had passed evidentiary testing. In particular, he examines both emotional and rational reactions to wondrous phenomena, and why some were readily accepted and others rejected. This book is an important contribution to the history of emotions and belief in the Middle Ages.
Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages
Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages write by Keagan Brewer. This book was released on 2019-12-12. Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved. Despite living in a world whose structures more often than not supported belief, there were still a great many who disbelieved, most notably scholastic philosophers who began a polemical programme against belief in marvels. Keagan Brewer reevaluates the Middle Ages' reputation as an era of credulity by considering the evidence for incidences of marvels, miracles and the supernatural and demonstrating the reasons people did and did not believe in such things. Using an array of contemporary sources, he shows that medieval responders sought evidence in the commonality of a report, similarity of one event to another, theological explanations and from people with status to show that those who believed in marvels and miracles did so only because the wonders had passed evidentiary testing. In particular, he examines both emotional and rational reactions to wondrous phenomena, and why some were readily accepted and others rejected. This book is an important contribution to the history of emotions and belief in the Middle Ages.
Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2019-08-05. Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card games, playing with dice or dolls, we can gain a much deeper understanding of medieval and early modern society when we consider how people pursued pleasure and how they structured their leisure time. The contributions examine a wide gamut of approaches to pleasure, considering health issues, eroticism, tournaments, playing music, reading and listening, drinking alcohol, gambling and throwing dice. This large issue was also relevant, of course, in non-Christian societies, and constitutes a critical concern both for the past and the present because we are all homines ludentes.
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2020-08-24. Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages write by Julie Barrau. This book was released on 2021-10-07. Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a new take on the identities and life histories of medieval people, in their multi-layered and sometimes contradictory dimensions.
