| The Playful Middle Ages: Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning: Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block Contributor(s): Hardwick, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503528805 ISBN-13: 9782503528809 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $54.15 Product Type: Hardcover Language: French Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Art | History - Medieval |
| Dewey: 306.480 |
| LCCN: 2012387032 |
| Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.30 lbs) 243 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles thesometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane. |