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
Autor principal: Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects.
New and old.
English literature > Middle English.
Discoveries in geography > Moral and ethical aspects.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Civilization, Medieval.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Ancien et nouveau.
Innovations > Aspect moral.
Decouvertes geographiques > Aspect moral.
Litterature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Civilisation medievale.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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