Nowhere in the Middle Ages.

"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 Ag...

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Main Author: Lochrie, Karma (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2016.
Series:Middle Ages series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nowhere Earth: Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Kepler's Somnium
  • Somewhere in the Middle Ages: The Land of Cokaygne, Then and Now
  • Provincializing Medieval Europe: Mandeville's Cosmopolitan Utopianism
  • "Something Is Missing": Utopian Failure, Piers Plowman and The Dream of John Ball
  • Reading Forward: More's Utopia Unmoored.