The medieval new : ambivalence in an age of innovation /

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Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Middle Ages series.
Temas:
To 1500
Civilization, Medieval.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Discoveries in geography > Moral and ethical aspects.
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > To 1500.
New and old.
Civilisation médiévale.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Découvertes géographiques > Aspect moral.
Innovations > Aspect moral.
Ancien et nouveau.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Discoveries in geography > Moral and ethical aspects
English literature > Middle English
New and old
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Newfangled Values
  • Chapter 1. Scholastic Novelties
  • Chapter 2. Conjuring Roger Bacon
  • Chapter 3. Ingenious Youth
  • Chapter 4. Little Nothings
  • Chapter 5. Suspect Economies
  • Chapter 6. Old Worlds and New
  • Afterword. An Age of Innovation
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments.

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