Primary documents, scholarly secondary sources, and some tantalizing modern tangents that provide insight into the open inquiry and thought that blossomed in the 11th and 12th centuries, and continues to be relevant to the exploration of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences of life together.
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message 1: by Bryce (last edited Jun 05, 2014 06:25AM) (new)

Bryce Well spotted. Its a bit like your Eco quote (about books as living things). The word 'medieval' is modernist, 19th century subjectivity. Who gets to decide what is the middle? Game of Thrones? Vikings? Neil Oliver?... Think of 'Written on the Body' as situated somewhere between Frances Yates' 'Art of Memory' and Walter Ong's "Orality and Literacy' - the medieval world is not dead, but a memory that lives in the shadows, internalised through writing. We have the fragments of a medieval consciousness ready for translation. Not separate from us. But part of our own history. Jeanette Winterson shows us how to open up the script under the skin through examples such as the Marriage of Figaro. Our task is not merely to read the past, but make it our present. History starts as a conversation with the past. Who knows where that (or this) conversation may lead...


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