{"product_id":"the-medieval-new-9780812247060","title":"The Medieval New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving as a means to adjudicate the ethics of invention and opening thorny questions of creativity and desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Medieval New\u003c\/i\u003e concentrates on the preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Examining a range of evidence, from the writings of Roger Bacon and Geoffrey Chaucer to the letters of Christopher Columbus, and attending to histories of children''s toys, the man-made marvels of romance, the utopian aims of alchemists, and the definitional \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Medieval New\u003c\/i\u003e is precise in its methods, pioneering in its claims, and creative in bringing together ethical, literary, theological, and historical concerns. Patricia Clare Ingham presents a sensitive and nuanced view of the relationship between 'old' and 'new' that adds immeasurably to the conversation about innovation and its relation to tradition.\" * Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Newfangled Values\u003cbr\u003e PART I. EX NIHILO\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Scholastic Novelties\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Conjuring Roger Bacon\u003cbr\u003e PART II. INGENIUM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Ingenious Youth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Little Nothings\u003cbr\u003e PART III. CURIOSITAS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Suspect Economies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Old Worlds and New\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. An Age of Innovation\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405725442391,"sku":"9780812247060","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247060.jpg?v=1730493403","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-medieval-new-9780812247060","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}