Strange Matter

Medieval Disruptions of Time

Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann, Andrew James Johnston

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Manchester University Press
02 September 2025

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

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.

Edited by: Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann, Andrew James Johnston
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 516g
ISBN: 9781526175960
ISBN 10: 1526175967
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 02 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Medieval disruptions of time – Martin Bleisteiner, Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston Part I: Materiality in motion 1 How to do things with things: Material objects in the multicultural Mediterranean – Sharon Kinoshita 2 Suspenseful gifts: Gemstones as mediators in medieval German travel narratives – Falk Quenstedt 3 Playing with linear time – Valerie Allen Part II: Ephemeral materialities 4 A strange object of aesthetic desire: Chaucer’s theatre as cinema – Andrew James Johnston 5 Vitreous temporalities – Stephanie Trigg 6 Cosmopolitical Shakespeares (On Macbeth’s bubbles) – Julian Yates Part III: Material (after)lives 7 The multiple lives of the Ruthwell Monument – Jan-Peer Hartmann 8 The movements of the Franks Casket – Joshua Davies 9 Meta-Poetic matter in John Lydgate’s Troy Book – Martin Bleisteiner and Wolfram Keller 10 Marco Polo’s boqtaq: A medieval object and its afterlives – Kim M. Phillips Index -- .

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 Universitt Berlin. Andrew James Johnston is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universitt Berlin.