Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250

Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80270-086-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Book Cultures

This study uses a series of medieval texts to address a set of urgent critical issues in Humanities centring on categories of L/literature, history, periodization, languages, and descriptions of script. These categories are inherited from the foundation of modern disciplines and fields of study, superimposed on what could be more flexible modes of scholarship. They are reinforced by modern academics in ways that hinder nuance, intellectual nimbleness, and new interpretative possibilities. Readers and researchers of English Language, Literature, Book Historical/Media Studies, and History are obliged by delimiting labels to navigate problematic foundational approaches and sources that confine and frustrate scholarly investigation. Through a series of cogent case studies, all situated from 1050 to 1250, the book highlights how restrictive and hierarchical modern scholarly categories can sometimes be.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Treharne, Elaine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Old English and its Afterword

Chapter One. Fact and Fiction: History and Imagination

Chapter Two. Known and Unknown: Authors and Translators

Chapter Three. Life and Death: Transition and Transformation

Chapter Four. Manuscript and Script: Time and Place

Afterwords

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Treharne, Elaine
Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches medieval literature and manuscript studies, and directs Stanford Text Technologies. She has published over thirty books on medieval literature.