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Description: Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-modern Texts and Images : Culture, Society and Reception, Hardcover by Nissim, Dafna (EDT); Tohar, Vered (EDT), ISBN 3111243567, ISBN-13 9783111243566, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies. The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.

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Book Title: Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-modern Texts

Number of Pages: 265 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images : Culture, Society and Reception

Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter

Subject: Civilization, Criticism & Theory, History / Medieval, Europe / Medieval

Publication Year: 2023

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 18.1 Oz

Item Length: 9.1 in

Subject Area: Art, History

Author: Vered Tohar

Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture Ser.

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Hardcover