Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Through their function as ‘figures of the third’, messengers have taken on a special position in reflections on media and mediality. At the same time, this process has led to the messenger’s de-historicization. This paper’s aim is to relocate the figure of the messenger in the specific historical setting of the Late Middle Ages. For through sole focus on messengers, something has been lost: the specific ensemble of messenger and letter and their constitutive materiality. Danksagung Für kritische Lektüre und wertvolle Hinweise danke ich Dominique Raphael Kläy, Marcel Müllerburg (HU Berlin), Simon Teuscher (Universität Zürich) und allen Mitdiskutierenden des Workshops im sommerlichen Finning herzlich. Online erschienen: 2014-11-11 Erschienen im Druck: 2014-11-1 © 2014 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Author: Isabelle Schürch
Institution: University of Zurich
Language: German
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1017588193