Visions and ruins

Visions and ruins
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781526125958
ISBN-13 : 1526125951
Rating : 4/5 (951 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Visions and ruins by : Joshua Davies

Download or read book Visions and ruins written by Joshua Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces connections in time, place, language and media to explore the temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation. The book interrogates critical, poetic, artistic and political archives to reveal exchanges of cultural energy and influence between past and present, offering new ways of knowing the medieval past and the contemporary moment.


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