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This volume examines the intersections between material and metaphorical mirrors in medieval and early modern culture. Mirrors have always fascinated humankind. They collapse ordinary distinctions, making visible what is normally invisible, and promising access to hidden realities. Yet, these liminal objects also point to the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom. In this interdisciplinary volume, specialists in medieval and early modern science, cultural and political history, as well as art history, philosophy, and literature come together to explore the intersections between material and metaphysical mirrors in Europe and the Islamic world. During the time periods studied here, various technologies were transforming the looking glass as an optical device, scientific instrument, and aesthetic object, making it clearer and more readily available, though it remained a rare and precious commodity. While technical innovations spawned new discoveries and ways of seeing, belief systems were slower to change, as expressed in the natural sciences, mystical writings, literature, and visual culture. Mirror metaphors based on analogies established in the ancient world still retained significant power and authority, perhaps especially when related to Aristotelian science, the medieval speculum tradition, religious iconography, secular imagery, Renaissance Neoplatonism, or spectacular Baroque engineering, artistry, and self-fashioning. Mirror effects created through myths, metaphors, rhetorical strategies, or other devices could invite self-contemplation and evoke abstract or paradoxical concepts. Whether faithful or deforming, specular reflections often turn out to be ambivalent and contradictory: sometimes sources of illusion, sometimes reflections of divine truth, mirrors compel us to question the very nature of representation.

History of civilization --- specular reflection --- mirrors --- Symbolism --- Mirrors --- Mirrors in literature --- History --- Aberration, Chromatic and spherical --- Looking-glasses --- Furniture --- Optical instruments --- Representation, Symbolic --- Symbolic representation --- Mythology --- Emblems --- Signs and symbols --- 930.85.42 --- 930.85.44 --- 930.85.44 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- cultuurgeschiedenis

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Van oudsher wordt het recht om te jagen verbonden met vorsten en adel. Hoe zit dat in de Nederlandse geschiedenis? Deze bundel geeft antwoord op die vraag en laat zien hoe de jacht in de loop van eeuwen minder elitair is geworden. In onze tijd heeft de jacht zich ontwikkeld tot onderdeel van wettelijk geregeld natuurbeheer. Toch vindt er regelmatig debat plaats over de ethiek van het jagen en de wenselijkheid van de jacht. Ook deze kwesties komen in dit boek aan de orde. 0Auteurs uit verschillende vakgebieden (geschiedenis, antropologie, geografie, ecologie, rechten, architectuurgeschiedenis) werkten mee aan de bundel. Als rode draad fungeert het spanningsveld tussen jachtrecht en jachtpraktijk dat in deze bundel vanuit een cultuurhistorisch perspectief wordt bezien.

930.85 --- 830 --- 830 Duitse literatuur --- Duitse literatuur --- 830 German literature. Literature in German --- German literature. Literature in German --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Hunting. Fishery. Aquaculture --- History of civilization --- hunting --- Netherlands --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Hunting

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The environment — together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world — has become a major focus of pre-modern studies. The thirteen contributions in this volume discuss topics across the millennium in Europe from the late 600s to the early 1600s. They introduce applications to older texts, art works, and ideas made possible by relatively new fields of discourse such as animal studies, ecotheology, and Material Engagement Theory. From studies of medieval land charters and epics to the canticles sung in churches, the encyclopedic natural histories compiled for the learned, the hunting parks described and illustrated for the aristocracy, chronicles from the New World, classical paintings from the Old World, and the plays of Shakespeare, the authors engage with the human responses to nature in times when it touched their lives more intimately than it does for people today, even though this contact raised concerns that are still very much alive today.

Human ecology --- Human beings --- Human ecology in literature --- History --- Effect of environment on --- E-books --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- 930.85 --- 930.85 <44> --- 574 --- 504 --- 504 Environment. Environmental science --- Environment. Environmental science --- 574 General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- 930.85 <44> Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Frankrijk --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis--Frankrijk --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Human ecology - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Human beings - Effect of environment on - History - To 1500

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During the last decades, representations of medieval and early modern urban space have witnessed an increasing popularity as objects of study within the historical disciplines. Scholars with different backgrounds investigate urban landscapes in various forms and using a wide range of media. In general, such ‘portraits of the city’ cover different types of visual and written documents. The twelve essays gathered in this book all cover specific types of such portraits, ranging from historiographical texts and archival record, over drawings, prints and paintings to maps and real urban architectural settings. Moreover, the interdisciplinary scope results in an ample compilation of various innovative methodologies, currently applied in the fields of study and disciplines addressed in the book. ‘Portraits of the City’ provides a representative overview of the current state of knowledge and is in this way a relevant contribution to the international debate on representations of the city. -- provided by publisher

History of Europe --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Cities and towns, Medieval --- Cities and towns, Medieval, in art --- Cities and towns, Renaissance --- Villes médiévales --- Villes médiévales dans l'art --- Villes de la Renaissance --- Stadsgeschiedenis (wetenschap). --- 930.85.42 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Stadsgeschiedenis (wetenschap) --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Villes médiévales --- Villes médiévales dans l'art --- History.

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"This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linear evolution of the grotesque, Frances S. Connelly analyzes key works, situating them within their immediate social and cultural contexts, as well as their place in the historical tradition. By taking a long historical view, the book reveals the grotesque to be a complex and continuous tradition comprised of several distinct strands: the ornamental, the carnivalesque and caricatural, the traumatic, and the profound. The book articulates a model for understanding the grotesque as a rupture of cultural boundaries that compromises and contradicts accepted realities. Connelly demonstrates that the grotesque is more than a style, genre, or subject; it is a cultural phenomenon engaging the central concerns of the humanistic debate today. Hybrid, ambivalent, and changeful, the grotesque is a shaping force in the modern era"--

Iconography --- History of civilization --- grotesques --- Grotesque --- Grotesque in art --- 7.04 --- 930.85 --- Aesthetics --- Arabesques --- Burlesque (Literature) --- Caricature --- Comedy --- Satire --- 7.04 Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- westerse visie