Название: The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation
Автор: Patricia Clare Ingham
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081224706X
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 288
Размер: 9,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science.