actor-network theory
anachronism
archaeology of objects
archives and material culture
art history
Bruno Latour
bubbles
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Chaucer
cross-cultural interaction
cultural artefacts
cultural hybridity
early modern studies
early modern texts
ephemerality
epistemology of time
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Franks Casket
gemstones in literature
global Middle Ages
historical temporality
historicity
history of collecting
history of knowledge
history of temporality
human-object relationships
hybridity
interdisciplinary humanities
literary theory
Marco Polo
material agency
material culture studies
Material objects
material texts
materiality
medieval art
medieval cosmopolitanism
medieval glass
medieval literature
medieval material culture
medieval studies
medievalism
Mediterranean world
memory and objects
museum studies
narrative and objects
nature-culture divide
new materialism
nonlinear time
object afterlives
object biographies
object mobility
periodisation
polychronicity
relics
Ruthwell Cross
Shakespeare
spolia
temporal disruption
temporal otherness
temporality
theory of history
thing studies
thing theory
things and meaning
time in the Middle Ages
transcultural exchange
transculturality
visual culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781526175960
- Weight: 516g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Strange matter offers exciting new perspectives on the premodern fascination with materiality and the various ways in which the Middle Ages and subsequent periods experienced things in time. Drawing on a wide selection of examples that range from medieval texts and artefacts of both European and non-European origin to Macbeth’s highly evocative meditation on bubbles, the essays compiled in this volume look beyond the confines of the Anglophone world. As they engage critically with the specific temporal otherness modernity has so often ascribed to medieval texts and artefacts, the contributors also enter into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism, such as thing studies and the growing field of ‘object biographies’ in cultural studies and museology.
Martin Bleisteiner is an editor and academic translator based in Berlin
Jan-Peer Hartmann is a fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Aitiologies’ at the Freie Universität Berlin
Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin
