Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages - Softcover

Kelly, Michael J.

 
9781685710545: Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1685710549 ISBN 13: 9781685710545
Publisher: Punctum Books, 2023

Synopsis

Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages seeks to expand our understanding of early medieval connectivity by interrogating social and intellectual collaborations, competitions, and communications among persons, places, things, and ideas in the European and Mediterranean West during the second half of the first millennium CE. In so doing, its contributors explore the existence, performance, and sustainability of diverse political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, and material networks via manuscripts, artifacts, and theories framed by two broad interpretive categories. The first examines networks of scholars, writers, and the social and political histories related to their productions. The second imagines the transmission of “knowledge” as information, rhetoric, object, and epistemic grounding. In addition, the book rigorously investigates the theoretical possibilities and problems of researching early medieval networks, attempts to re-construct historical networks, and critically analyzes the concept of “information.”

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Publisher
Punctum Books
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1685710549
ISBN 13 
9781685710545
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248
Editor
Fazioli K. Patrick