Книга
Ванина Евгения Юрьевна
New Delhi , 2012, 336 стр.
Книга представляет англоязычную версию монографии автора «Средневековое мышление: индийский вариант». В монографии содержится реконструкция элементов картины мира средневекового индийского общества и входящих в него социальных групп, рассматривается восприятие ими таких основополагающих сторон бытия, как пространство, время, общество, человек.
Книга будет интересна специалистам по средневековью, а также широкому кругу читателей, желающих почерпнуть новую информацию об истории и культуре в средние века.
English version
The book is the English version of the author’s monograph written in Russian in 2007. The work focuses on how Indians in precolonial times perceived their world. It compares the specific features of their ‘mental programmes’ with that of their counterparts in other premodern societies. While analysing the importance of space in the medieval world view, the book discusses how medieval Indians comprehended their territories and the landscape as ‘their own’ vis-à-vis the ‘alien’ space; the development of territorial-cultural and ter-ritorial-political identities, and knowledge about other lands and peoples. In a discussion of medieval temporality, the book also studies the ways of perceiving and reckoning time, attitudes to the historical past and the manifold ways of recording it. A special chapter on ‘Society’ deals with socio-ethical values and behavioral stereotypes of major estate and caste groups like the feudal landlords, priests and officials, merchants and craftsmen, peasants and the lower castes in villages. The book also has a chapter on the medieval Indian perception of Man, his appearance and peculiarities as they pertained to the age; behavior, social status, and the steady development of individuality. “Medieval Indian Mindscapes” will be of interest to medievalists as well as general readers, keen to know more about the dynamics of pre-modern history and culture.
