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Strange matter offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality and the various ways in which the Middle Ages and subsequent periods experienced things in time. Drawing on a wide selection of examples that range from medieval texts and artefacts of both European and non-European origin to Macbeth’s highly evocative meditation on bubbles, the essays compiled in this volume look beyond the confines of the Anglophone world. As they engage critically with the specific temporal otherness modernity has so often ascribed to medieval texts and artefacts, the contributors also enter into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, such as thing studies and the growing field of ‘object biographies’ in cultural studies and museology.
Strange matter offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality and the various ways in which the Middle Ages and subsequent periods experienced things in time. Drawing on a wide selection of examples that range from medieval texts and artefacts of both European and ...
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Martin Bleisteiner is an editor and academic translator based in Berlin
Jan-Peer Hartmann is a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Aitiologies’ at the Freie Universität Berlin
Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin
Martin Bleisteiner is an editor and academic translator based in Berlin
Jan-Peer Hartmann is a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Aitiologies’ at the Freie Universität Berlin
Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universitä...
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