{"product_id":"the-medieval-new-ambivalence-in-an-age-of-innovation-hardback-9780812247060","title":"The Medieval New; Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation (Hardback) 9780812247060","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Medieval New\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmbivalence in an Age of Innovation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Clare Ingham (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812247060\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 4 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.596 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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 precision of the scholastics, Ingham analyzes the ethical ambivalence with which medieval thinkers approached the category of the new. With its broad reconsideration of what the \"newfangled\" meant in the Middle Ages, \u003ci\u003eThe Medieval New \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an alternative to histories that continue to associate the medieval era with conservation rather than with novelty, its benefits and liabilities. Calling into question present-day assumptions about newness, Ingham's study demonstrates the continued relevance of humanistic inquiry in the so-called traditional disciplines of contemporary scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670824612120,"sku":"9780812247060","price":48.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-medieval-new-ambivalence-in-an-age-of-innovation-hardback-9780812247060","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}