Textual Obscurity in the Middle Ages (Introduction)

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RIV/00216208:11240/13:10196696
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Textual Obscurity in the Middle Ages (Introduction)
Original language description
Modern readers of medieval texts often find them obscure. Some of this obscurity is accidental and inevitable due to the historical and cultural distance that separates modern readers from medieval authors, but medieval readers and authors also appear tohave simply had a higher tolerance for textual obscurity than we do and even to have viewed obscurity as desirable and a virtue. They did not believe that obscurity could ever be eradicated and were not scared of the indescribable, indivisible, and ungraspable; they accepted reality as complex and ultimately unintelligible. Obscurity was not simply a riddle to be solved. It was a source of wonder, questioning and a search for meaning.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GPP405%2F10%2FP112" target="_blank" >GPP405/10/P112: Interpreting and Appropriating Obscurity in Medieval Manuscript Culture: The Case of "Versus maligni angeli"</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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