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Multiform Arguments in the Historiography of Individualism in Pre-Modern Europe

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dc.contributor.advisorCohen, Thomas V.
dc.creatorYaari, Noa
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T14:54:09Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T14:54:09Z
dc.date.copyright2018-11-22
dc.date.issued2019-03-05
dc.date.updated2019-03-05T14:54:09Z
dc.degree.disciplineHistory
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation argues that we can have a better, more effective illustrated historiography; that we can construct and communicate historical arguments that combine words and images, considering clear nomenclature, conventions and standards; and that we can develop an analytical and critical discourse about verbal-visual or multiform arguments and knowledge. We can do so because this dissertation offers a new analytical approach to historiography that combines words and images. This approach conceptualizes illustrated historiography and arguments as multiform, to emphasize their hybrid nature, and enhance the awareness of the various forms this hybridity takes. My investigation of this hybridity provides terminology to describe nuances of textual multiformity; analytical methods to explore the structure and function of multiform arguments (MFAs); and, finally, directions for future empirical research that will help scholars construct MFAs more effectively, and deepen our understanding of multiform grammar. This dissertation analyzes five MFAs from five different publications that explore pre-modern individualism in Europe (ca. 1050-1600). Their debate is on where and when individualism developed; what its catalysts, and cultural and social features were; and how to define individual. These illustrated publications range from 1958 to 2015. While the first publication was illustrated after the historians death, the other four were illustrated by the historians themselves. Therefore, the analysis of those five MFAs shows how historians and illustrators create historical notions, using primary sources of both verbal and visual sorts, and how they communicate those notions by juxtaposing words and images in printed books. Analyzing MFAs from a discourse that historicizes the self, and that addresses the methodological and epistemological problematic of the historians self doing so, promotes self-awareness, and analogy between selves and MFAs. Drawing on studies from historiography, linguistics, art history, literary criticism, psychology and computer science, this dissertation concludes that the rhetorical devices that serve historians in depicting the past through MFAs are the same devices that have enabled institutions and individuals to construct identities for individuals. Thus, awareness of multiformity in the past and its representation increases the effectiveness of using MFAs, as it illuminates the ideologies and playfulness that prevail between words and images.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35878
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectHistory
dc.subject.keywordsHistoriography
dc.subject.keywordsText analysis
dc.subject.keywordsWord and image
dc.subject.keywordsEarly modern Europe
dc.subject.keywordsPre-modern Europe
dc.subject.keywordsMiddle Ages
dc.subject.keywordsMedieval Europe
dc.subject.keywordsSemantics
dc.subject.keywordsSemiotics
dc.subject.keywordsVerbal
dc.subject.keywordsVisual
dc.subject.keywordsArgumentation
dc.subject.keywordsIndividualism
dc.subject.keywordsHistory of the self
dc.subject.keywordsJacob Burckhardt
dc.subject.keywordsR. W. Southern
dc.subject.keywordsColin Morris
dc.subject.keywordsJohn Jeffries Martin
dc.subject.keywordsDouglas Biow
dc.subject.keywordsMultimodal
dc.subject.keywordsMultimedia
dc.subject.keywordsMFA
dc.subject.keywordsMFR
dc.subject.keywordsMFG
dc.subject.keywordsMultiform argument
dc.subject.keywordsMultiform reference
dc.subject.keywordsMultiform grammar
dc.subject.keywordsExplicit multiform reference
dc.subject.keywordsImplicit multiform reference
dc.subject.keywordsIndeterminate multiform reference
dc.subject.keywordsParatext
dc.subject.keywordsImagetext
dc.subject.keywordsl'Uomo Univesale
dc.subject.keywordsJohannes Jahn
dc.subject.keywordsThe Perfecting of the Individual
dc.subject.keywordsFrom Epic to Romance
dc.subject.keywordsThe Search for the Self
dc.subject.keywordsThe Inquisitors' Questions
dc.subject.keywordsFacing the Day: A Reflection on a Sudden Change in Fashion and the Magisterial Beard
dc.subject.keywordsAnselm of Canterbury
dc.subject.keywordsCur Deus Homo
dc.subject.keywordsGiovanni della Casa
dc.subject.keywordsGalateo
dc.subject.keywordsBaldassare Castiglione
dc.subject.keywordsThe Book of the Courtier
dc.subject.keywordsPersonal portrait
dc.subject.keywordsLeon Battista Alberti
dc.subject.keywordsLorenzo Lotto
dc.subject.keywordsRaphael
dc.subject.keywordsJacopo da Pontormo
dc.subject.keywordsBartolomeo Carpan
dc.subject.keywordsThe Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
dc.subject.keywordsThe Making of the Middle Ages
dc.subject.keywordsThe Discovery of the Individual 1050-1200
dc.subject.keywordsMyths of Renaissance Individualism
dc.subject.keywordsOn the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men
dc.subject.keywordsTheir Profession and Their Beards
dc.subject.keywordsWorking memory
dc.titleMultiform Arguments in the Historiography of Individualism in Pre-Modern Europe
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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