The Medieval New: Ethical Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation

by Patricia Clare Ingham

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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 to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:081224706X

ISBN13:9780812247060

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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