Medieval ‘Virtuosity’: Classroom Practice and the Transfer of Charismatic Power in Medieval Scholarly Culture c. 1000–1230
Mia Münster-Swendsen
A key impulse of cultural transmission is engaging with the past for benefit present. In seventeen essays on subjects that range from Paschasius Radbertus to Orhan Pamuk, Regularis Concordia Kurt Weill, and Augustine Adorno, Negotiating Heritage examines specific historical case-studies reveal appropriation, modification, or repudiation a legacy. The overall focus this interdisciplinary volume memory: medieval conceptions memory, resonances Middle Ages in later periods, memory as heuristic methodological device. Through tokens other vestiges - physical memorial tomb, ritualized retention acts structures, reverberations doctrinal, literary, musical, iconographic topos, symbolic reminiscences ideal manifestation something absent. This anthology studies such way provides fruitful new perspective field research into explores dimension issues heritage, genealogy, tradition. Furthermore, also probes reception construction periods; exploring shifting territory meaning itself. its movement between medievalism period, an important contribution both established emerging trends critical thought.
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