Authority of Images / Images of Authority

Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2016 | New edition
Medieval Institute Publications (Verlag)
978-1-58044-220-6 (ISBN)

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Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu. The volume brings together various disciplinary approaches, offering a complex appreciation of these questions. While a core of the essays focuses on France, the contributions engage a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centuries of the Common Era to the seventeenth century, revealing the prevalence and persistence of the key interconnected issues of images and authority.
Contributors: Carla Bozzolo; Philippe Caron; Robert L. A. Clark; Paul Cohen; Thomas Conley; Jean-Philippe Genet; Douglas Kibbee; Gillette Labory; Nicole Pons; Mara R. Wade.

Karen L. Fresco is Associate Professor of French, Medieval Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Introduction

I. Language and Norms

Language and Identity: The Case of Byzantium, by Thomas Conley

Le « Père des bonnes lettres » et le « prince de la riche locution françoyse » ; L'image du roi-polyglotte et l'élévation du français à la Renaissance, sens et ambivalences, by Paul Cohen

Les images de l'autorité en matière de langue en France (1453-1647), by Philippe Caron and Douglas Kibbee

II. Performances and Authorities

The Parlement de Paris and the Plays: A Reconsideration of the 1548 Ban of the "Mystères sacrés," by Robert L. A. Clark

The Construction of Electoral Saxon Identity in the Court Festivities of 1548, by Mara R. Wade

III. Collection and Compilation Reflecting and Constituting Authority

Les Bibliothèques privées en Angleterre: Livres et littérature politique, by Jean-Philippe Genet

Diffusion et autorité de la Grande Chronique de Normandie (XIVe-XVe siècles): Mouvance du texte et réseau de circulation, by Gillette Labory

IV. The Power of Translators

Un « homme populaire et de petite science au service des hommes de pouvoir »: L'humaniste Laurent de Premierfait, by Carla Bozzolo

Un « Manuel » d'économie domestique bourgeoise: Laurent de Premierfait et les Économiques du Pseudo-Aristote, by Nicole Pons†

Dürer's Self-Portrait (1500) and the Charisma of Images, by C. Stephen Jaeger

List of Manuscripts

Bibliography

Index

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Medieval Culture
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-58044-220-X / 158044220X
ISBN-13	978-1-58044-220-6 / 9781580442206
Zustand	Neuware