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