Nowhere in the Middle Ages / Karma Lochrie.
Nowhere in the Middle Ages / Karma Lochrie.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2016/2879
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium -- Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now -- Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism -- "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of Jo...
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Edition
1st edition.
Series
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
"Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealin...
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Full title
Nowhere in the Middle Ages / Karma Lochrie.
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Author / Creator
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General note
The middle ages series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2016/2879
Record Identifier
74VKVq3ml7LX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVq3ml7LX
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ISBN
0812248112 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780812248111 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
DDC
809.93372
MMS ID
991024007491902626
