中世纪
Hildegard von Bingen: A feather on the breath of God
Douban
★ 9.7 7 ratings
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page … genre: Classical
release date 1993-09-01 publisher: Hyperion
This is the record that started the Hildegard craze back in 1982--and you need only listen to Emma Kirkby glide and soar through Columba aspexit (the opening hymn) to understand why. Gothic Voices performs the music very simply, either alternating soloists and unison choir over a drone or using a single unaccompanied voice. The singers render Hildegard's extravagant poetic imagery and melody not with the rhythmically fluid, ecstatic approach favoured by Sequentia, but with equalist rhythm and a calm, meditative quality. Gothic Voices' straightforward approach is less likely to send you into a rapturous trance than is Sequentia's, but in the hands of such fine singers as Kirkby, Margaret Philpot, and Emily van Evera, Hildegard's extraordinary texts and melodies are captivating--and clear enough to linger in the memory as melodies rather than just sensations. This record is still Hyperion's bestselling title by far--try it and find out why.
中世纪的英雄与奇观
Héros & Merveilles du Moyen Âge Douban
★ 8.3 15 ratings
[法] 雅克·勒高夫 translator: 鹿泽新 publishing house: 后浪丨四川文艺出版社 2020 - 5
史学大师的匠心之作 带你漫游中世纪的心灵世界 ◎ 编辑推荐 ☆具有代表性的中世纪意象,向读者细细讲述了这些意象的演变历程和基本特征,带读者漫游那个奇伟瑰丽的中世纪世界。 ◎ 内容简介 本书是一本讲述中世纪意象的历史书籍。意象涉及图像和文本,它培育和构建了传说与神话,并通过创造形象、借用形象,推动了社会的运转和思考。可以说,中世纪的意象世界是培育现代西方文化的土壤之一,各类意象在这个世界中诞生、改变。作者挑选了中世纪意象世界中具有代表性的两类意象——英雄与奇观来介绍该领域。英雄包括亚瑟王、查理曼、熙德、梅绿丝娜、女教皇若安等等,奇观则包括主教座堂、防御城堡和回廊内院。就算在现代世界,中世纪的意象依然富有生命力,它们经常出现在流行文化之中。 作者雅克·勒高夫是声名卓著的史学大家,但是本书的语言绝不枯燥乏味,这位大师俨然一位风趣的导游,带读者穿行在意象世界中。本书配有大量出自古代手抄本的插图,让中世纪的意象世界以更鲜活的姿态出现在读者眼前。对于渴望了解中世纪的读者来说,此书是一场不可错过的文化盛宴。 ◎ 媒体推荐 雅克·勒高夫没有试图从全局描述中世纪的意象,而是通过对特定的奇观或英雄人物的精细而深入的研究,在基础上研究它。——法国《历史》杂志
Medieval Robots
Douban
E. R. Truitt publishing house: University of Pennsylvania Press 2015 - 5
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental questions about knowledge, nature, and divine purpose in the Middle Ages. Medieval Robots recovers the forgotten history of fantastical, aspirational, and terrifying machines that captivated Europe in imagination and reality between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. E. R. Truitt traces the different forms of self-moving or self-sustaining manufactured objects from their earliest appearances in the Latin West through centuries of mechanical and literary invention. Chronicled in romances and song as well as histories and encyclopedias, medieval automata were powerful cultural objects that probed the limits of natural philosophy, illuminated and challenged definitions of life and death, and epitomized the transformative and threatening potential of foreign knowledge and culture. This original and wide-ranging study reveals the convergence of science, technology, and imagination in medieval culture and demonstrates the striking similarities between medieval and modern robotic and cybernetic visions.
中世纪有关死亡的生活
Douban
(法)达尼埃尔・亚历山大比东 translator: 陈劼 publishing house: 山东画报出版社 2005 - 2
作者对历史资料的搜集、整理工作,实在是做得非常充分。且不说他在讨论每一个问题的时候所列举的论据有多么翔实,单只看他在文中所引用的每一句话,每一个小故事,无不加以详细的出处说明。作者参考的资料来源很多,其中的一部分是各种专业期刊、会刊。要想在这么多涉及神学、考古学、教育学、历史学、哲学、地质学、社会学、心理学、文学等范围的资料中,找出能为自己所用且与主题紧密贴合的只言片语来,需要多么大的阅读量和投入整理工作的时间啊!相比起来,笔者本人所花的心力就太微不足道了。我相信,作者所引用的资料,对于国内从事同一领域研究的工作者们而言,也是非常有用和具有指导意义的,因此具有很高的学术价值。最难得的是,在这本书中,诙谐 、幽默,甚至是离奇的参考资料也时有出现。