
Different Appearances in the Middle Ages: Academics, Beliefs and Society in the Manuscript Era
by Yu Xin
About This Novel
This book attempts to reconstruct a new picture of scholarship in the medieval era, and attempts to explore various aspects of the establishment of intellectual traditions: the process of knowledge creation, copying and adaptation, the methods of knowledge dissemination and knowledge control, the cultural psychology and cultural symbols implied by the selectivity of text collection, religious rituals and beliefs. The penetration and influence of concepts, the role of individual emotions and thinking in knowledge production and other dimensions, rethinking the significance of alchemy and natural history in social history, intellectual history and civilization history, with a particular emphasis on the reflection on the relationship between knowledge construction and text form, writing behavior and usage practice. This book pays special attention to the mutual corroboration of unearthed documents and traditional documents, archaeological excavation objects and foreign documents, and strives to communicate textual materials and image data. It combines traditional primary school and famous object research, history-archaeology-linguistics analysis, and modern science-related results to conduct comprehensive research, and at the same time bridge the gap between disciplines to a certain extent.
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