This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 1, March 2020.
Author(s): Elizabeth S. Leet
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 125
City: Cham
Contents
Writing companions: Toward a critical entanglement with the more-than-human world
Writing with dogs
Thinking things through
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Human and insect bookworms
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Acknowledgments
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Francis’s animal brotherhood in Thomas of Celano’s Vita Prima
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Reading the medieval fur experience: Peire Vidal and the poverty of Pelletiers
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Loving and dying, trapping and flaying
History of furriers in medieval culture
Fur in medieval culture
The socio-economic status of pelletiers
Conclusion
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Becoming object/becoming queen: the marital contact zone in Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide
Abstract
Recreant husband -- Mal-mariée
Corpse -- Widow
King -- Queen
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‘Do not allow an empty goblet to face the moon’: lyrical materialities in the drinking
poems of Li Bai 李白(701–762) and Du Fu 杜甫(712–770)
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Jahāngīrī portrait shasts: Material-discursive practices and visuality at the Mughal court
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The hungry monk: Bernard of Clairvaux in a trans-corporeal landscape
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Bernard’s permeable body
Visions of interpenetrating bodies
Picturing the trans-corporeal ideal
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‘Skin black and wrinkled’: The toxic ecology of the Sibyl’s cave
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Black skin and toxic bodies: The Sibyl’s underworld ecology in the Roman d’Eneas
Dwelling with the Sibyl in the underworld
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‘De aymant en dyamant’: Lexical transmutations in the works of Philippe de Mézières
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Posthumanism and the claim to rational action
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