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By Sarah Elliott Novacich

Sarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers reflected the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She lines 3 episodes of sacred heritage - the lack of Eden, the loading of Noah's ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - throughout works of poetry, functionality files, and iconography so as to reveal how medieval artists grew to become to sacred historical past to imagine via features of cultural transmission. Performances of the lack of Eden blur the connection among unique and list; tales of Noah's ark foreground the trouble of compiling inventories; and engagements with the Harrowing of Hell recommend the impossibility of isolating the previous from the current. interpreting heart English performs along chronicles, poetry, and works of visible paintings, Shaping the Archive in overdue Medieval England considers how poetic shape, staging logistics, and the prestige of functionality all give a contribution to our figuring out of the ways that medieval thinkers imagined the archive.

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