How Long to Read Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain

How Long Does it Take to Read Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain by Tiffany Beechy

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Description

This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh,” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them. Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.

How long is Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain?

Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain by Tiffany Beechy is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain aloud.

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Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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