Ayoush Lazikani The Medieval Moon review, recensie en informatie boek over hoe de Middeleeuwse mens de maan ervoer. Op 9 september 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek van Ayoush Lazikani die docent aan de Universiteit van Oxford, gespecialiseerd middeleeuwse literatuur. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Ayoush Lazikani The Medieval Moon review en recensie

• “The Medieval Moon presents not a moon, but the moons of poets and natural philosophers, astrologers and travellers from areas as far apart from one another as Japan, China, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the kingdoms of Christendom. Lazikani’s approach is as cross-cultural as it is interdisciplinary, written in a style that is both entertaining and erudite, filled with wonderful stories from a broad array of traditions.” (Scott E. Hendrix, Carroll University)
• “This book tells the extraordinary global story of the imaginative power of the medieval moon, via Sufi poetry and Zodiac men, Old English riddles and Inca statues, Andalusian medicine and Old Norse theology. The Medieval Moon is a beautiful and innovative book, accessibly written, rigorously researched, and touched by the transformative potential of its subject.” (Marion Turner, author of The Wife of Bath)

The Medieval Moon

A History of Haunting and Blessing

• Auteur: Ayoush Lazikani
• Soort boek: Middeleeuwse geschiedenis
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Verschijnt: 9 september 2025
• Omvang: 272 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
• Prijs: $ 30.00
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de beleving van de maan in de middeleeuwen

A vivid new history of how medieval people around the world perceived the moon.

When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was at once powerful and fragile, distant and intimate—and sometimes all this at once. The moon could convey love, beauty, and gentleness; but it could also be about pain, hatred, and violence. In its circularity the moon was associated with fullness and fertility. Yet in its crescent and other shifting forms, the moon could seem broken, even wounded.

In this beautifully illustrated history, Ayoush Lazikani reveals the many ways medieval people felt and wrote about the moon. Ranging across the world, from China to South America, Korea to Wales, Lazikani explores how different cultures interacted with the moon. From the idea that the Black Death was caused by a lunar eclipse to the wealth of Persian love poetry inspired by the moon’s beauty, this is a truly global account of our closest celestial neighbour.

Ayoush Lazikani is a lecturer at the University of Oxford. A specialist in medieval literature, she is the author of Cultivating the Heart and Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250, and an associate editor for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages.

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