The Medieval New: Ethical Ambivalence in an Age of Innovation

by Patricia Clare Ingham

Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224706X
• ISBN13: 9780812247060
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"