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Title Early modern medievalisms : the interplay between scholarly reflection and artistic production / edited by Alicia C. Montoya, Sophie van Romburgh, Wim van Anrooij
Published Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; v. 15
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 15.
Contents Introduction : questioning early modern medievalisms / Alicia C. Montoya, Sophie van Romburgh and Wim van Anrooij -- 'I desire therefore I am' : Petrarch's canzoniere between the medieval and the modern notion of desire / Elena F. Lombardi -- Medievalisms in Latin love poetry of the early Italian quattrocento / Christoph Pieper -- On pleasure : conceptions in Badius Ascensius' Stultiferae naves (1501) / Anne-Marie De Gendt -- From historical invention to literary myth : ambivalences and contradictions in the early modern reception of the Franco-Trojan genealogy / Tiphaine Karsenti -- Early modern angelic song in Francesco Patrizi's L'amorosa filosofia (1577) / Jacomien Prins -- Rabelaisian medievalisms : Pantagruel and amadis / Paul J. Smith -- The portrait of lady katherine grey and her son iconographic medievalism as a legitimation strategy / Martin Spies -- Medieval tradition presented in early modern paintings and inscriptions in little Poland / Waldemar Kowalski -- 'O fundatrix begginarum' : St. Begga and her office in early modern Beguine scholarship and musical sources / Pieter Mannaerts -- Medievalism and magic : illustrating classical French fairy tales / Daphne M. Hoogenboezem -- A fairy troubadour? : medieval matter and the 'bon vieux temps' in women's fairy tales (1730-1750) / Aurelie Zygel-Basso -- Old French in the eighteenth century : Aucassin et Nicolette / Peter Damian-Grint -- 'Covered in the thickest darkness of forgetfulness' : humanist commonplaces and the defence of medievalism in Janus Dousa's metrical history (1599) / Coen Maas -- Reproducing the Middle Ages : Abbe Jean-Joseph Rive (1730-1791) and the study of manuscript illumination at the turn of the early modern period / Andrea Worm -- Michelangelo out of focus : medievalism as absent life in Italian Renaissance art / Joost Keizer -- Jean Mabillon's Middle Ages : on medievalism, textual criticism, and monastic ideals / Mette B. Bruun -- The early modern construction of medieval Jewish thought / Adam Shear
Summary Modernity has historically defined itself by relation to classical antiquity on the one hand, and the medieval on the other. While early modernity's relation to Antiquity has been amply documented, its relation to the medieval has been less studied. This volume seeks to address this omission by presenting some preliminary explorations of this field. In seventeen essays ranging from the Italian Renaissance to Enlightenment France, it focuses on three main themes: continuities and discontinuities between the medieval and early modern, early modern re-uses of medieval matter, and conceptualizatio
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Medievalism.
Civilization, Medieval.
Medievalism in literature.
Medievalism in art.
Medieval Revival.
Medievalism (cultural movement)
HISTORY.
Civilization, Medieval
Intellectual life
Medievalism
Medievalism in art
Medievalism in literature
modernité -- Moyen-Âge -- Renaissance -- Lumières -- études diverses.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Subject Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Montoya, Alicia
Romburgh, Sophia Georgina van, 1969-
Anrooij, W. van
ISBN 9789004193598
9004193596
1283039532
9781283039536
9786613039538
6613039535