Nowhere in the Middle Ages

by Karma Lochrie

Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248112
• ISBN13: 9780812248111
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"