Tiffany Beechy 
Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain [EPUB ebook] 
Materiality and the Flesh of the Word

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This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition.

Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh, ” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them.

Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.

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Preface

Introduction

1. “Supereffability” and the Sacraments of Christ’s Humanity

2. Seeing Double: Representing the Hypostatic Union

3. No Ideas but in Things: Aesthetics and the Flesh of the Word

4. Concealing is Revealing I: Opacity and Enigma in the Wisdom Tradition

5. Concealing is Revealing II: The Shadow Manuscript in the Margins of CCCC 41

Conclusion

Works Cited

List of Figures

关于作者

Tiffany Beechy is professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of The Poetics of Old English.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9780268205140 ● 文件大小 15.0 MB ● 出版者 University of Notre Dame Press ● 市 IN ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2023 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8980378 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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