TY - BOOK ID - 675922 TI - Forms of individuality and literacy in the medieval and eraly modern periods / edited by Franz-Jozef Arlinghaus. PY - 2015 VL - 31 SN - 9782503552200 9782503552897 PB - Turnhout : Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - History of civilization KW - Literature KW - anno 500-1499 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Individuality in literature. KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Literacy KW - Individualité dans la littérature KW - Littérature médiévale KW - Alphabétisation KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - Individualité KW - Dans la littérature KW - 930.85.42 KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen KW - 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen KW - Individuality in literature KW - Literacy. KW - Literature, Medieval. KW - Schreiben. KW - Schriftlichkeit. KW - Individualität. KW - History and criticism KW - To 1500. KW - Individualité dans la littérature KW - Littérature médiévale KW - Alphabétisation KW - Dans la littérature. KW - Histoire et critique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:675922 AB - "Individuality" is one of the central categories of modern society. Can the roots of modern individuality be found in pre-modern times ? Or is our way of thinking about ourselves a very recent phenomenon ? This book takes a theoretical approach to the problem, derived from Niklas Luhmann’s system theory, in which different forms of individuality are linked to different structures of society in modern and pre-modern times. The papers in this volume approach this problem by discussing a broad variety of medieval and early modern sources, including charters and seals, letters, and naming-practices in a late medieval town. Self-representation is also considered, in "housebooks" and drawings. Textual studies include autobiography in german humanism, and concepts of individuality and gender in late medieval literary texts. ER -