Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions

Edited by: Albrecht Classen

Volume 24 in the series Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693669

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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.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	I
Contents Accessible Download PDF	VII
List of illustrations Accessible Download PDF	XI
Imagination, Fantasy, Otherness, and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern World Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
When Dreams Got Real: The Ontology of Dreaming in the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition David Bennett and Filip Radovic Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	231
Imaginary Creatures Causing Real Diseases: Projective Etiology in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Chiara Benati Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	253
Political Ideals, Monstrous Counsel, and the Literary Imagination in Beowulf Edward Currie Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	275
Who is Grendel in Beowulf? Ambiguity, Allegory, and Meaning Daniel F. Pigg Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	303
Otherworldly Pilgrims: The Hell Tour and the Establishment of (Continental) Christian Territoriality on the Anglo-Saxon and Irish Peripheries Warren Tormey Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	321
On Monstrosity in the Shāhnāmah: Philosophizing with Żaḥḥāk Robert Landau Ames Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	355
The Negative Imagination: William IX’s Song Exactly About Nothing: “Farai un vers de dreit nien” Fidel Fajardo-Acosta Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	377
Ladies, Warriors and Genies: Imagining Gender and Power in The Book of the Tales of Ziyad Ibn Amir al-Kinani Jessica K. Zeitler Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	417
The World of Hybrid Women in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Fantasy Images, Fascination, and Terror Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	437
The Myth of the Amazons in Medieval Spain Luis Isidro Jiménez Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	469
Wonders and Monsters in The Travels of John Mandeville and in Abu Hamid al-Gharnāti’s Tuhfat al-Albāb Sally Abed Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	487
Are Dreams Gender-Related? The Function of Dreams in Middle High German Narrative Literature Christa Agnes Tuczay Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	511
Monstra nobiscum: Medieval and Early Modern Teratology and the Confluence of Imaginatio and Scientia Scott L. Taylor Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	543
Jews and Anti-Jewish Fantasies in Christian Imagination in the Middle Ages Birgit Wiedl Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	573
The Life of Christ in Medieval Bestiaries: Imagining the Griffin, Lion, Unicorn, Pelican, and Phoenix Jane Beal Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	607
Monsters, Grotesques, and Other Marvels in the Later Medieval Imagination Siegfried Christoph Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	637
Fantastic Places, Objects, and Creatures in Fourteenth-Century Czech-Language Literature: Imagination During the Reign of the Luxembourg Dynasty Filip Hrbek Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	661
The Mermaid of Edam and the Emergence of Dutch National Identity Martha Moffitt Peacock Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	683
Dream and Prophetic Projection in Andreas Gryphius’s Historical Tragedies: Traces of the Symbol John Pizer Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	711
The Shadow of the Knight: Phantom Fears and their Distortions of Reality in Baroque Spanish Theater Emmy Herland Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	737
Fantasy, Imagination, and Vision in Thomas Vaughan’s Lumen de Lumine Thomas Willard Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	759
Biographies of the Contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	789
Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	797

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of the Middle Ages and the early modern age, scholars in cultural studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 807
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Coloured Illustrations: 24
Keywords: Imagination; fantasy; medieval and early modern concepts

eBook

Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9783110693782

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Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9783110692945