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Standardization in the Middle Ages : Volume 2: Europe / ed. by Line Cecilie Engh, Kristin B. Aavitsland
Contributor(s):- Aavitsland, Kristin Bliksrud [MitwirkendeR]
- Aavitsland, Kristin Bliksrud [HerausgeberIn]
- Bonde, Line M [MitwirkendeR]
- Burden, John [MitwirkendeR]
- Engh, Line Cecilie [MitwirkendeR]
- Engh, Line Cecilie [HerausgeberIn]
- Firey, Abigail [MitwirkendeR]
- Franklin-Brown, Mary [MitwirkendeR]
- Ingham, Patricia Clare [MitwirkendeR]
- Lugli, Emanuele [MitwirkendeR]
- Naismith, Rory [MitwirkendeR]
- Quaas, Franziska [MitwirkendeR]
- Reynolds, Philip [MitwirkendeR]
- Verbaal, Wim [MitwirkendeR]
- Westwell, Arthur [MitwirkendeR]
- Winroth, Anders [MitwirkendeR]
- 9783110987126
Contents:
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: 1922672297Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: On the Same Page -- Part 1: Navigating. Form and Transformation -- 1 Between Chaos and Codification: Consensus and the Content of Carolingian Canon Law -- 2 One for All and All for One? Money and Standardization in the Early Middle Ages -- 3 The Metamorphosis of Elephants: Medieval Chess between Play and Standardization -- 4 When Bodies Were Points: Fencing, Standardization, and the Erasure of Matter -- Part 2: Composing. Creativity and Flexibility -- 5 Humble originality: Geoffrey Chaucer's Emergent Style -- 6 Standardizing Penances in the Ottonian Empire: Goals, Methods, and Limits -- 7 How to Write a Private Charter in the Early Middle Ages. Formulaic Writing between Uniformity and Heterogeneity -- 8 Standards and Variance in the Early Medieval Mass Liturgy: Re-Making the Gregorian Sacramentary -- Part 3: Converging. Canonicity and Unity -- 9 A Sense of Decorum: Negotiating Standards for the Medieval Parish Church -- 10 Canalizing the Floods: Variance and Standardization of Written Language in the Middle Ages -- 11 How European Law Became Standardized -- 12 Toward Understanding Scholastic Theology as a Canonical Culture -- Index
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