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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World

Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature

Albrecht Classen

Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World

Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World

Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature

Albrecht Classen

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Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and concepts were shared throughout the entire period. The idea of the trail as an epistemological vehicle for the protagonists proves to be critical in reaching a deep understanding of medieval values and ideals.



"Albrecht Classen's Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World does for literature what Albert Einstein did for physics with his General Theory of Relativity. Just as Einstein suggested that spacetime is curved by the mass and acceleration of physical bodies and their gravitational forces, Classen allows us to see the constellation that we call the Middle Ages as an event carved out of spacetime by authorial agencies and literary forces, enduring for a thousand years, and still affecting the ways in which we understand our present and our future. Focused on accounts of travel, journeys and movements in real and imagined spaces, by authors and fictional characters, the book establishes the primacy of stepping forth and venturing out, as the acts by which the world and the traveler come into being. Ontology and epistemology, in that way, are posited as effects of the kinetics and the serendipitous meanderings that make them possible in the first place. The four dimensions of spacetime, however, are not the only realms of interest to this study. Just as post-Einsteinian physics has endeavored to establish the existence of dimensions beyond those of sensory perception, Classen too proposes that the metaphorical effects inherent to literary language become passageways into a spiritual dimension, running as it were parallel to the tracks of our own world. Astrophysics translated into literary scholarship, cosmology rendered as cultural history, Tracing the Trails opens up entirely new ways of understanding how literature not only represents, but shapes, the universe in which we live, in effect pre-scripting and blazing the trails of our destinies and identities, also shedding light on the metaphysical and transcendental dimensions of our journeys."

Fidel Fajardo-Acosta

Creighton University



Dr. Albrecht Classen is a University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona focusing mostly on medieval and early modern literature and culture.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Routledge
  • Pub date
    Oct 2020
  • Pages
    324
  • Theme
    Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
  • Dimensions
    229 x 152 mm
  • Weight
    571 gram
  • EAN
    9780367459697
  • Hardback / bound
    Hardback / bound
  • Language
    English

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