Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time : Projections, Dreams, Monsters, and Illusions /

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Imprint:Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Description:1 online resource ( XIII, 807 pages)
Language:English
Series:Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 24
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 24.
Subject:Imagination -- History -- To 1500.
Fantasy -- History -- To 1500.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Fantasy
Imagination
Literature, Medieval
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12595797
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Other authors / contributors:Classen, Albrecht, editor
ISBN:3110693666
9783110693669
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:In English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2020).
Other form:Print version: 9783110693782
Print version: 9783110692945
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110693669
Table of Contents:
  • Imagination, Fantasy, Otherness, and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern World
  • When Dreams Got Real: The Ontology of Dreaming in the Arabic Aristotelian Tradition
  • Imaginary Creatures Causing Real Diseases: Projective Etiology in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
  • Political Ideals, Monstrous Counsel, and the Literary Imagination in Beowulf
  • Who is Grendel in Beowulf? Ambiguity, Allegory, and Meaning
  • Otherworldly Pilgrims: The Hell Tour and the Establishment of (Continental) Christian Territoriality on the Anglo-Saxon and Irish Peripheries
  • On Monstrosity in the Shāhnāmah: Philosophizing with Żaḥḥāk
  • The Negative Imagination: William IX's Song Exactly About Nothing: "Farai un vers de dreit nien"
  • Ladies, Warriors and Genies: Imagining Gender and Power in The Book of the Tales of Ziyad Ibn Amir al-Kinani
  • The World of Hybrid Women in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature: Fantasy Images, Fascination, and Terror
  • The Myth of the Amazons in Medieval Spain
  • Wonders and Monsters in The Travels of John Mandeville and in Abu Hamid al-Gharnāti's Tuhfat al-Albāb
  • Are Dreams Gender-Related? The Function of Dreams in Middle High German Narrative Literature
  • Monstra nobiscum: Medieval and Early Modern Teratology and the Confluence of Imaginatio and Scientia
  • Jews and Anti-Jewish Fantasies in Christian Imagination in the Middle Ages
  • The Life of Christ in Medieval Bestiaries: Imagining the Griffin, Lion, Unicorn, Pelican, and Phoenix
  • Monsters, Grotesques, and Other Marvels in the Later Medieval Imagination
  • Fantastic Places, Objects, and Creatures in Fourteenth-Century Czech-Language Literature: Imagination During the Reign of the Luxembourg Dynasty
  • The Mermaid of Edam and the Emergence of Dutch National Identity
  • Dream and Prophetic Projection in Andreas Gryphius's Historical Tragedies: Traces of the Symbol
  • The Shadow of the Knight: Phantom Fears and their Distortions of Reality in Baroque Spanish Theater
  • Fantasy, Imagination, and Vision in Thomas Vaughan's Lumen de Lumine