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The Elements in the Medieval World
Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Earth
Series: - Elements, Nature, Environment, Volume: 2
The fourteen chapters and poem of this volume reflect the centrality of the element Earth in medieval thought and life, a centrality inherited from classical antiquity, and fundamental too in Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. The chapters also reflect the multifarious nature of the ways that Earth was experienced and understood in the Middle Ages.
Contributors are Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Daniel Anlezark, Marilina Cesario, Catherine Clarke, James Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Virginia Iommi EcheverrÃa, Andrew Fear, Danielle B. Joyner, Hugh Magennis, Francesco Marzella, Tom C.B. McLeish, Patrick Naeve, Bernard OâDonoghue, Sinéad OâSullivan, Alexandra Paddock, Elisa Ramazzina, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbjørn O. Sønnesyn, Sinéad OâSullivan, and Margaret Tedford.
Contributors are Sophie E.D. Abrahams, Daniel Anlezark, Marilina Cesario, Catherine Clarke, James Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Virginia Iommi EcheverrÃa, Andrew Fear, Danielle B. Joyner, Hugh Magennis, Francesco Marzella, Tom C.B. McLeish, Patrick Naeve, Bernard OâDonoghue, Sinéad OâSullivan, Alexandra Paddock, Elisa Ramazzina, Hannah E. Smithson, Sigbjørn O. Sønnesyn, Sinéad OâSullivan, and Margaret Tedford.
Marilina Cesario is Professor of Early Medieval Literature at Queenâs University Belfast. She has published in the fields of early medieval weather and astronomy, prognostication, reception of classical mythology in the early Middle Ages and on manuscript studies. She is the editor with H. Magennis of Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Ages (2018).
Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus at Queenâs University Belfast. He has published widely on Old English and related literature, specialising particularly in saintsâ lives, translation and poetic tradition. Among his publications are The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Translating Beowulf (both 2011) and, most recently, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints (2020) (with J. Kramer and R. Norris). Hugh Magennis is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the English Association.
Elisa Ramazzina received her doctorate in Germanic Philology from the University of Pavia. Her research focuses on medieval landscape and the natural world, particularly water, and she has published in the fields of early medieval English poetry, meteorology, monster studies, medieval medicine and ecocriticism.
Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus at Queenâs University Belfast. He has published widely on Old English and related literature, specialising particularly in saintsâ lives, translation and poetic tradition. Among his publications are The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Translating Beowulf (both 2011) and, most recently, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library edition and translation Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints (2020) (with J. Kramer and R. Norris). Hugh Magennis is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the English Association.
Elisa Ramazzina received her doctorate in Germanic Philology from the University of Pavia. Her research focuses on medieval landscape and the natural world, particularly water, and she has published in the fields of early medieval English poetry, meteorology, monster studies, medieval medicine and ecocriticism.
Foreword
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
ÂIntroduction
ÂâMarilina ÂCesario, ÂHugh ÂMagennis and ÂElisa ÂRamazzina
Â
1 ÂIsidore of ÂSeville and the ÂBounty of the ÂEarth
ÂâAndrew ÂFear
2 The ÂTransmutation of the ÂÂElemental ÂIdea: the ÂMetaphorical, ÂMathematical and ÂMaterial ÂAlchemy of ÂRobert ÂGrosseteste
ÂâTom C.B. ÂMcLeish, ÂSophie E.D. ÂAbrahams, ÂSigbjørn O. ÂSønnesyn and ÂHannah E. ÂSmithson
3 Shaking the ÂFoundations: ÂReading ÂEarthquakes in ÂByzantine and ÂChinese ÂSources
ÂâMarilina ÂCesario
Â
4 The ÂOikoumenÄ and the ÂCarolingian ÂReception of ÂVirgil
ÂâSinéad OâÂSullivan
5 Ciò forma di la Terra il gran tumore: Cecco dâAscoli and the Disposition of Dry Land in Medieval Cosmological Literature
âVirginia Iommi EcheverrÃa
6 Terra, the ÂArts, and ÂSpiritual ÂEcologies
ÂâDanielle B. ÂJoyner
7 ÂDe terra et partibus: ÂVisions of the ÂEarth in ÂMedieval ÂMapping, c. 800â1300
ÂâMargaret ÂTedford
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8 ÂThinking with ÂMud: ÂDirt, ÂImagination and ÂEarly ÂMedieval ÂEnglish ÂCulture
ÂâCatherine A.M. ÂClarke
9 Mudbricks and Egyptian Monks: Some Critical Musings on Earthen Entanglements
âStephen J. Davis
10 Maintaining the ÂEarth: ÂSoil ÂManagement and ÂSustainability in ÂMedieval ÂAgricultural ÂManuals
ÂâJames ÂDavis
11 ÂLife in ÂEarth: ÂAnimal ÂRelations with ÂEarth in the ÂPhysiologus, ÂBestiaries and ÂEarly ÂMedieval ÂRiddles
ÂâAlexandra ÂPaddock
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
ÂIntroduction
ÂâMarilina ÂCesario, ÂHugh ÂMagennis and ÂElisa ÂRamazzina
Â
Part 1: Foundations of the ÂEarth
1 ÂIsidore of ÂSeville and the ÂBounty of the ÂEarth
ÂâAndrew ÂFear
2 The ÂTransmutation of the ÂÂElemental ÂIdea: the ÂMetaphorical, ÂMathematical and ÂMaterial ÂAlchemy of ÂRobert ÂGrosseteste
ÂâTom C.B. ÂMcLeish, ÂSophie E.D. ÂAbrahams, ÂSigbjørn O. ÂSønnesyn and ÂHannah E. ÂSmithson
3 Shaking the ÂFoundations: ÂReading ÂEarthquakes in ÂByzantine and ÂChinese ÂSources
ÂâMarilina ÂCesario
Â
Part 2: Reception of the ÂEarth
4 The ÂOikoumenÄ and the ÂCarolingian ÂReception of ÂVirgil
ÂâSinéad OâÂSullivan
5 Ciò forma di la Terra il gran tumore: Cecco dâAscoli and the Disposition of Dry Land in Medieval Cosmological Literature
âVirginia Iommi EcheverrÃa
6 Terra, the ÂArts, and ÂSpiritual ÂEcologies
ÂâDanielle B. ÂJoyner
7 ÂDe terra et partibus: ÂVisions of the ÂEarth in ÂMedieval ÂMapping, c. 800â1300
ÂâMargaret ÂTedford
Â
Part 3: Materiality of the ÂEarth
8 ÂThinking with ÂMud: ÂDirt, ÂImagination and ÂEarly ÂMedieval ÂEnglish ÂCulture
ÂâCatherine A.M. ÂClarke
9 Mudbricks and Egyptian Monks: Some Critical Musings on Earthen Entanglements
âStephen J. Davis
10 Maintaining the ÂEarth: ÂSoil ÂManagement and ÂSustainability in ÂMedieval ÂAgricultural ÂManuals
ÂâJames ÂDavis
11 ÂLife in ÂEarth: ÂAnimal ÂRelations with ÂEarth in the ÂPhysiologus, ÂBestiaries and ÂEarly ÂMedieval ÂRiddles
ÂâAlexandra ÂPaddock
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