The Elements in the Medieval World Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Water.
This groundbreaking book, one of four on the 'elements', presents interdisciplinary approaches to the topic of water in the Middle Ages, ranging geographically across Europe and beyond and chronologically from the fourth century CE to the sixteenth.
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2024.
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| Series: | Elements, Nature, Environment Series.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Water Power -- 1 Water, Weather and Wellbeing -- 2 Hydrotheology -- 3 Aqueous Bi-polarities -- 4 Artistry, Authority, Agency -- Bibliography -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Water in Natural Philosophy -- 2 Images of Seas and Rivers -- 3 Water in Theory and Practice -- 4 Romance, Religion, and Myth -- 5 The Present Volume -- 6 Chapters and Connections -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part1: Water in Natural Philosophy and Medicine -- 1 What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Water Cycle in Early Arabic Meteorology -- Introduction -- 1 Rising Water -- 1.1 Reaching the Apex -- 1.2 Cloud Formation -- 2 Falling Water -- 2.1 The Role of Coldness -- 2.2 The Curious Case of Hail -- 3 Flowing Water -- 3.1 Reservoirs Explained -- 3.2 The Role of Mountains -- 4 Deep Water -- 4.1 Natural Explanations -- 4.2 Theological and 'Mixed' Explanations -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 2 From the 'King of the Waters' to Curative Manuscripts | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1 The Christus medicus Metaphor and Saintly Healing in Medieval Irish Literature -- 2 Water and Healing in Medieval Irish Medical Texts -- 3 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 3 Bathing in Medieval Europe -- 1 Early Medieval Balneology -- 2 An Intermediate Phase in Medieval Balneology -- 3 Late Medieval Balneology -- 4 The Apogee of Balneology -- 5 Readership and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part:2 Images of Seas and Rivers -- 4 Opicinus de Canistris's Demonic Seas -- 1 Stable Seas | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2 Demonic Waters -- 3 Surfacing -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- 5 From Sign to Embodiment: the River Jordan and the Representation of Water -- 1 Shapes of Water -- 2 River Gods -- 3 Representing Water -- 3.1 Cocoons, Mounds and Ribbons -- 3.2 Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century: Transparencies -- 3.3 Fourteenth-Fifteenth Century: Hair Flow, Water Curls and Aquatic Auras -- 3.4 Water and Style -- 4 Towards a Conclusion: Imagination, Unconscious and Consciousness of Water -- Bibliography -- 6 Imagine Oceans: the Many Meanings -- Introduction: the One that is Many | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1 Traditions of Knowledge and Knowledge of Practitioners: the Ocean until c. 1500 -- 2 A Sea of Profit and Violence -- 3 A Void to Cross -- 4 A Nautical, Mathematical or Cosmographical Challenge -- 5 Where the Devil Lurks and Spirits Roam -- 6 Oceans between Freedom and Possession -- 7 Imagine Oceans -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part:3 Water in Thought and Practice -- 7 Fluid Dynamics: Aquatic Agency in the Poetic Edda of the -- 1 Extended Minds and Material Engagement -- 2 Codex Regius as Exogram -- 3 Rainfall, Dewfall -- 4 River -- 5 Sea -- 6 Ice | |
| 500 | |a 7 The Properties of Water in the Codex Regius | ||
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