Body as Text/Text as Body: Embodied Knowledge Transmission in Sixteenth Century Morocco

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Medieval Encounters Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI:10.1163/15700674-12340167

E. Spragins

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Abstract

The stories told about the battle of Wādī al-Makhāzin (August 4, 1578) reveal a major crisis of information for all involved in the event. At the very center of that epistemological crisis were the three warring kings. Even as new leadership gradually wrested the Western Mediterranean out of chaos, there remained a nagging sense that the knowable rested on shaky footing. This article explores one way in which a Maghrebi chronicler of this event contemplates the difficulty of protecting and transmitting reliable knowledge in a broad Mediterranean context. Ultimately, he promotes a theory for the conservation and transmission of knowledge reliant upon the functional interaction of enlightened leadership and information incorporated within situated human bodies.

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身体即文本/文本即身体:16世纪摩洛哥的具身知识传播

关于Wādī al-Makhāzin战役(1578年8月4日)的故事揭示了所有参与该事件的人的重大信息危机。这场认识论危机的中心是三个交战的国王。即使新的领导层逐渐将西地中海从混乱中拉了出来，人们仍有一种挥之不去的感觉，即知名人士的基础并不稳固。这篇文章探讨了马格里布事件编年史者思考在广阔的地中海背景下保护和传播可靠知识的困难的一种方式。最后，他提出了一种理论，认为知识的保存和传播依赖于开明的领导和信息在人类体内的功能互动。

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