The Medieval Fold: Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual (The New Middle Ages) - Softcover

Book 106 of 227: The New Middle Ages

Verderber, S.

 
9781349433490: The Medieval Fold: Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual (The New Middle Ages)
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ISBN 10: 1349433497 ISBN 13: 9781349433490
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to pastoral power passively, they constructed fantasies and behaviors, redeploying or 'folding' it to create new forms of life and culture. Incorporating the work of Nietzsche, Foucault, Lacan, and Deleuze, Suzanne Verderber presents a model of the subject in which the opposition between interior self and external world is dislodged.

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About the Author

Suzanne M. Verderber is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1349433497
ISBN 13 
9781349433490
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
212

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