The New Middle Ages: Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

Verderber, S.

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to pastoral power passively, they constructed fantasies and behaviors, redeploying or 'folding' it to create new forms of life and culture. Incorporating the work of Nietzsche, Foucault, Lacan, and Deleuze, Suzanne Verderber presents a model of the subject in which the opposition between interior self and external world is dislodged.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-05-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349433490

DOI: 10.1057/9781137000989

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 198