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Strange Matter: Medieval Disruptions of Time(Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Strange Matter: Medieval Disruptions of Time(Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)


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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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Medieval disruptions of time – Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston Part I: Materiality in motion 1 How to do things with things: Material objects in the multicultural Mediterranean – Sharon Kinoshita 2 Suspenseful gifts: Gemstones as mediators in medieval German travel narratives – Falk Quenstedt 3 Playing with linear time – Valerie Allen Part II: Ephemeral materialities 4 A strange object of aesthetic desire: Chaucer’s theatre as cinema – Andrew James Johnston 5 Vitreous temporalities – Stephanie Trigg 6 Cosmopolitical Shakespeares (On Macbeth’s bubbles) – Julian Yates Part III: Material (after)lives 7 The multiple lives of the Ruthwell Monument – Jan-Peer Hartmann 8 The movements of the Franks Casket – Joshua Davies 9 Meta-Poetic matter in John Lydgate’s Troy Book – Martin Bleisteiner and Wolfram Keller 10 Marco Polo’s boqtaq: A medieval object and its afterlives – Kim M. Phillips Index

About the Author :
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 Universitt Berlin. Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universitt Berlin.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781526175960
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 318
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
  • Sub Title: Medieval Disruptions of Time
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1526175967
  • Publisher Date: 02 Sep 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 516 gr


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