Glossator 12: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Glossator 12: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Erik Kwakkel
Publisher: Glossator
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

VOLUME 12 (2022): COMMENTING AND COMMENTARY AS AN INTERPRETIVE MODE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE Edited by Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock Introduction: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Christina Lechtermann & Markus Stock The Pro-Active Scribe: Preparing the Margins of Annotated Manuscripts Erik Kwakkel Thinking from the Margins: Opening and Closing Illuminations and their Commentary Functions around 1000 Kristin Böse Reading Texts within Texts: The Special Case of Lemmata Andrew Hicks The In-/Coherences of Narrative Commentary: Commentarial Forms in the Anegenge Christina Lechtermann Dante’s Self-Commentary and the Call for Interpretation Elisa Brilli Spiritualizing Petrarchism, “Poeticizing” the Bible: Two Counter-Reformation Self-Commentaries Christine Ott and Philip Stockbrugger The Power of Glosses: Francesco Fulvio Frugoni’s Self-Commentary and Literary Criticism in the Tribunal della Critica Andrea Baldan Commenting on a Purged Model: The M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton libri omnes novis commentariis illustrati of the Jesuit Matthäus Rader (1602) Magnus Ulrich Ferber

Gateways to the Book

Gateways to the Book
Author: Gitta Bertram
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 635
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004464522

An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800.

After the Carolingians

After the Carolingians
Author: Beatrice Kitzinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110578395

A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.

Blake in Our Time

Blake in Our Time
Author: Karen Mulhallen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442641517

Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work. Following in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history.

Material Transgressions

Material Transgressions
Author: Kate Singer
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-07-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789627575

Material Transgressions reveals how Romantic-era authors think outside of historical and theoretical ideologies that reiterate notions of sexed bodies, embodied subjectivities, isolated things, or stable texts. The essays gathered here examine how Romantic writers rethink materiality, especially the subject-object relationship, in order to challenge the tenets of Enlightenment and the culture of sensibility that privileged the hegemony of the speaking and feeling lyric subject and to undo supposedly invariable matter, and representations of it, that limited their writing, agency, knowledge, and even being. In this volume, the idea of transgression serves as a flexible and capacious discursive and material movement that braids together fluid forms of affect, embodiment, and textuality. The texts explored offer alternative understandings of materiality that move beyond concepts that fix gendered bodies and intellectual capacities, whether human or textual, idea or thing. They enact processes – assemblages, ghost dances, pack mentality, reiterative writing, shapeshifting, multi-voiced choric oralities – that redefine restrictive structures in order to craft alternative modes of being in the world that can help us to reimagine materiality both in the Romantic period and now. Such dynamism not only reveals a new materialist imaginary for Romanticism but also unveils textualities, affects, figurations, and linguistic movements that alter new materialism’s often strictly ontological approach. List of contributors: Kate Singer, Ashley Cross, Suzanne L. Barnett, Harriet Kramer Linkin, Michael Gamer, Katrina O’Loughlin, Emily J. Dolive, Holly Gallagher, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Mary Beth Tegan, Mark Lounibos, Sonia Hofkosh, David Sigler, Chris Washington, Donelle Ruwe, Mark Lussier.

Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry

Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry
Author: Michael Gamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108132812

This is the first book to examine how Romantic writers transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences. In a series of case studies, Michael Gamer shows Romantic poets to be fundamentally social authors: working closely with booksellers, intimately involved in literary production, and resolutely concerned with current readers even as they presented themselves as disinterested artists writing for posterity. Exploding the myth of Romantic poets as naive, unworldly, or unconcerned with the practical aspects of literary production, this study shows them instead to be engaged with intellectual property, profit and loss, and the power of reprinting to reshape literary reputation. Gamer offers a fresh perspective on how we think about poetic revision, placing it between aesthetic and economic registers and foregrounding the centrality of poetic collections rather than individual poems to the construction of literary careers.

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music

Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music
Author: Michael Fleming
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317147154

Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.

Landschaften - Gärten - Literaturen

Landschaften - Gärten - Literaturen
Author: Irmela von der Lühe
Publisher: Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3960910002

Forschungen zur Geschichte der Gartenkultur, zu moderner Landschaftsarchitektur und zu Gärten und Landschaften in der Literatur sind einer der Forschungsschwerpunkte des Zentrums für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL) der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Der Band 19 der CGL-Studies bietet wichtige neue Erkenntnisse zum Zusammenhang von Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaften einerseits und den "Garten"-Wissenschaften andererseits.Fachleute aus den verschiedenen Disziplinen haben sich anlässlich des 70. Geburtstags von Hubertus Fischer mit einer faszinierenden Vielfalt neuer Fragen den Gärten und Landschaften in und außerhalb der Literatur genähert. Die Beiträge des Bandes entwickeln u. a. "Transdisziplinäre Blicke auf akademische Landschaften", stellen "Reflexionen über Landschaften und Gärten in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit" an oder wandeln "Auf den Spuren Theodor Fontanes". Es geht dabei immer wieder um Beziehungen zwischen realen und "Stimmungslandschaften", um Imaginationen von Natur und Landschaft und "Landschaften der Leidenschaft" bis hin zu den Gebirgslandschaften der Schweiz und der Klosterlandschaft Chorin. Ein Kapitel mit "Kulturgeschichtlichen Perspektiven und Fallstudien" rundet den Band ab und fragt z. B. nach "religiösen" Landschaften oder nach urbanen Utopien in literarischen Texten der Gegenwart.Mit Beiträgen von:Roland Berbig, Regina Dieterle, Konrad Ehlich, Jan Gehlsen, Harald Haferland, Karsten Jørgensen, Detlef Karg, Dieter Kartschoke, Wolfgang Keim, Hansjörg Küster, Günther Mensching, Gerd Michelsen, Maria E. Müller, Günter Nagel, Hubert Orlowski, Volker Remmert, Miriam Riekenberg, Werner Röcke, Michael Rohde, Georg Ruppelt, Vanessa Rusch, Carola Schelle-Wolff, Norbert Rob Schittek, Ralf Schnell, Hille von Seggern, Sigrid Thielking, Donata Valentien, Florian Vaßen, Berbeli Wanning, Udo Weilacher, Tanja Weiß, Clemens Alexander Wimmer, Maria Wojtczak

Schrift, Text und Bild

Schrift, Text und Bild
Author: Herwig Maehler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783598775963

The volume, published to mark Herwig Maehler's 70th birthday, contains 19 of his articles and papers, offering a selection from the research contribution of a Classicist who has explored very diverse areas of the Ancient World, combining them in pro