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Standardization in the Middle Ages : Volume 1: the North
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (266 p.)ISBN:- 9783110773712
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Summary: We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North and Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 2: Europe, turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas and practices that produced-and were produced by-standards and standardization. At first glance, the Middle Ages might appear an unlikely place to look for standardization. The editors argue that, on the contrary, generating predictability is a precondition for meaningful cultural interaction in any historical period and that we may look to the Middle Ages to learn more about the historical, social, and cognitive processes of standardization.This multidisciplinary venture, which includes medievalists from the fields of history, intellectual history, art history, philology, numismatics, and more, as well as scholars of cognitive science, informatics, and anthropology, interrogates how medieval people and groups envisioned and enforced predictability, uniformity, and order, and how they attempted to obtain and maintain standards across vast distances and heterogeneous social and cultural structuresPPN: PPN: 1916221785Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction to Standardization in the Middle Ages -- Part 1: Rhythms -- 2 Raising Standards -- 3 Penning the Standard: Norms, Conventions, and Usage in the Scandinavian Middle Ages -- 4 Standardizing Violence in Norwegian Medieval Laws -- 5 Parish sizes in Hólar bishopric in the Middle Ages -- Part 2: Embodiment -- 6 Flexibility, Predictability, Standardization: The Difficult Art of Creating Stable Selves -- 7 Setting the Standard: Devotional Measures in the Medieval North
8 The Soft Standards of Liturgical Sensescapes: Edifying Cistercians in the North -- 9 Standardization of Ritual Offerings: The Eucharist, Human Sacrifice and Monetization -- 10 Skaldic Poetry -- Encrypted Communication -- Index
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