Produkt
KlappentextThis volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.
ZusammenfassungPlants and Trees in Images and Texts of the Medieval and Early Modern World
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-8471-1426-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum11.04.2022
Reihen-Nr.Band 026
Seiten336 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht604 g
Illustrationenwith 65 figures
Artikel-Nr.50370510
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik
