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Action versus contemplation : why an ancient debate still matters
\"This book is about the tension and potential balance between the active and contemplative lives--between the \"vita activa\" and the \"vita contemplativa\"--ideals that have been debated since antiquity. The message of this book is that deep human needs call forth both possibilities.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Memory's library
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
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Monuments and Ruins: Spenser and the Problem of the English Library
This essay reconsiders the place of the English Reformation in The Faerie Queene, Book II, by focusing on the library of Eumnestes (\"Good Memory\"). After the Dissolution of the Monasteries caused the dispersal and wide-scale destruction of monastic libraries, a new generation of collectors sought to recover their lost books in the name of national heritage. In the process, they redefined the library from a primarily religious institution to a center of nationhood. Reading Spenser's library in this context, I consider how it produces memory, reading, and national identity as distinctly post-Reformation entities.
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2011: The Haskins Medal
The Haskins Medal for 2011 goes to Caroline Walker Bynum for her book Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond, published in 2007 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In a disturbing, intriguing, and masterly study of Christ's blood, the author describes the (to us) strange yet logical, emotional yet analytic approaches of theology and devotion. From the late fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century, northern Europe experienced a kind of “blood frenzy,” as Bynum calls it. The material reality and sacrificial effect of the blood shed by Christ's torment and execution provoked intense religious emotion as well as harsh criticism of popular practices. Discussion about the nature and implications of Christ's blood reflected unease over what could be taken as unique remains of Christ's body. Because the blood was an effusion, it was a physical symbol of Christ's suffering that remained on earth after the Resurrection, yet it also could be regarded as corruptible matter.
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