John Block Friedman

Dados Biográficos

ID201091
NOMEJohn Block Friedman
PRENOMESJohn Block
SOBRENOMEFriedman
ASSINATURAFRIEDMAN J B
AFILIAÇÕESNorth Carolina State University
ORCID0000-0002-1481-9688
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1966
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2020
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  • The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought

    John Block FriedmanBOOKThe Monstrous Races in Medieval…2020

    During the Middle Ages, travellers in Africa and Asia reported that monstrous races thrived beyond the boundaries of the known world. This work offers an introspective look at these races and their interaction with Western art, literature and philosophy

  • Serious Jews

    Open AccessJohn Block FriedmanARTICLECultural Dynamics2020Referências: 30

    This article shows how the concept of cultural intimacy can help scholars better analyze ethnoracial identity politics in the United States. It draws on ethnographic research with Yiddish language activists, or "Yiddishists." Yiddishists define their engagement with the language through a discourse of "seriousness"-marked by hard work and intensive study. Seriousness, as a kind of affective orientation and cultural aspiration, offers Yiddishists …

  • The intimate workings of culture

    Open AccessC D Berk, John Block Friedman et al.ARTICLECultural Dynamics2020Citada por: 3Referências: 11

    This Cultural Dynamics Special Issue on "The Intimate Workings of Culture" examines the complex ways power, audience, and imagination are implicated in the social practices and politics of cultural intimacy. First theorized by Michael Herzfeld in 1997, cultural intimacy has proven to be a productive lens through which to explore the dialectic between the construction and contestation of collective identities. The contributors-Joshua Friedman, Jam…

  • Routledge Revivals

    John Block Friedman, KRISTEN MOSSLER FIGGBOOKRoutledge Revivals : Trade,…2017Citada por: 1

    First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492.This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to f…

  • Dürer's rhinoceros and what he or she was wearing

    Open AccessJohn Block FriedmanARTICLEJournal of Material Culture2015Referências: 30

    This article examines how images of carnations in the page borders and calendar miniatures of the late medieval devotional books locally produced for Netherlandish civic elites provide an opportunity to examine identity formation and concepts of urban magnificence and splendor. It also considers the role of carnations in discussions and depictions of gardens in a popular medieval Italian estate creation and management book, Piero Crescenzi's Rura…

  • Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum2006

  • Empire of Magic

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum2004

  • Medieval Mythography, 2

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum2002

  • Barlaam and Josaphat

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum2001

  • An Introduction to the "Gawain"-Poet. Ad Putter

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum2000

  • Deformed Discourse

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum1999

  • Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages

    Mary C Erler, John Block FriedmanARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1996

  • The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought

    Wendy Morgan, John Block FriedmanARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1982

  • Fabula

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum1976

  • Eurydice, Heurodis, and the Noon-Day Demon

    John Block FriedmanARTICLESpeculum1966