Michael Bintley, Pippa Salonius, Samer Akkach, Meg Boulton, Pauline Leplongeon

Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages

Comparative Contexts
Herausgeber: Bintley, Michael; Salonius, Pippa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.

Produktdetails

• Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781843846642
• ISBN-10: 1843846640
• Artikelnr.: 68987721

Autorenporträt

Edited by Michael D. J. Bintley and Pippa Salonius

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Surrounding Forest - Michael D. J. Bintley and Pippa
Salonius 1. Mother Earth, Sister Moon and the Great Forest of T¿ne - Pippa
Salonius 2. Beowulf's Foliate Margins: The Surrounding Forest in Early
Medieval England - Michael D. J. Bintley 3. Bone, Stone, Wood: Encountering
Material Ecologies in Early Medieval Sculpture - Meg Boulton 4.
'Mervoillous fu li engineres que croix fist de fust, non de pierre':
Materiality and Vernacular Theology in the Wood of the Cross Legend - Laura
Chuhan Campbell 5. The Evolution of Relational Tree-Diagrams from the
Twelfth to Fourteenth Century: Visual Devices and Models of Knowledge -
José Higuera Rubio 6. From Forest to Orchard: Arboreal Areas as
Mnemotechnic Supports in the Middle Ages - Naïs Virenque 7. The Vegetal
Imaginary in Exemplary Literature: The Case of the Ci nous dit - Pauline
Leplongeon 8. Adam's Sister: Tree Symbolism in Premodern Mystical Islamic
Cosmology - Samer Akkach Concluding Reflections