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Life of J.D. Åkerblad
Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times
Inbunden, 2013
3226 kr
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Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-François Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian scripts. Åkerblad, an …
Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness
The Information Age in Swift's 'a Tale of a Tub'
Häftad, 2006
188 kr
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Prémices philosophiques
Présentées avec une introduction en anglais par S.L. Jaki
Av Pierre Duhem
Inbunden, 1987
2283 kr
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Barbary and Enlightenment
European Attitudes towards the Maghreb in the 18th Century
Av Ann Thomson
Inbunden, 1987
2270 kr
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This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the …
Tragic Ambiguity
Anthropology, Philosophy and Sophocles' Antigone
Av Th.C.W. Oudemans, André Lardinois
Inbunden, 1987
2500 kr
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John de Foxton's Liber Cosmographiae (1408)
An Edition and Codicological Study
Av John de Foxton, John B. Friedman
Inbunden, 1988
2500 kr
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Jewish Pope
Ideology and Politics in the Papal Schism of 1130
Av Mary Stroll
Inbunden, 1987
1957 kr
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Rodolphus Agricola Phrisius 1444-1485
Proceedings of the International Conference at the University of Groningen 28-30 October 1985
Inbunden, 1988
2244 kr
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Jeux d'errance du chevalier médiéval
Aspects ludiques de la fonction guerrière dans la littérature du Moyen Age flamboyant
Inbunden, 1988
2500 kr
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Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England
Inbunden, 1988
2351 kr
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This book is a study of the practical application of a religious idea: the belief in the continuing validity of the Old Testament, especially the Ten Commandments, which ordained the observance of the Sabbath on the seventh day, Saturday.The author traces the growth and development of the most …
Menasseh ben Israel and his World
Av Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
2371 kr
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This book, the results of a conference held in Israel in 1985, brings together many new perspectives on the significance of Menasseh ben Israel's ideas, and their relation to Christian millenarian views of the time and Jewish kabbalistic and messianistic thought. Scholars from America, Europe and …
Sceptics, Millenarians and Jews
Inbunden, 1990
2283 kr
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One of the main consequences of recent work in early modern intellectual and religious history has been a discrediting of the notion of a sudden and dramatic transition to the spiritual world of the Enlightenment. Scholars are increasingly examining the underlying spiritual trends and tendencies …
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience
Inbunden, 1990
2283 kr
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The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigour in the second half of the twentieth century. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free …
Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena
Inbunden, 1990
2283 kr
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This book deals with Eriugena's anthropology in the general context of his thinking on universal nature.At the outset the role of man seems to be conditioned by nature's dynamic development through the Neoplatonic stages of procession and return. As man is located at the turning- point between …
Queen Christina of Sweden and her Circle
The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine
Inbunden, 1991
2216 kr
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The life and works of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) have often been obscured behind a haze of Iurid myths and legends. This book looks again at her notorious abdication of 1654, seeing it against the background of her reputation as a "libertine", a heterodox religious thinker. Her …
Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Inbunden, 1991
2283 kr
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This volume consists of more than twenty articles by Richard H. Popkin on the history of modern philosophy, written between 1980 and 1990, including several not published before this.The topics covered in these studies range over religious and theological influences in modern philosophy, further …
Spinoza: Issues and Directions
Proceedings of the Chicago Spinoza Conference, 1986
Inbunden, 1990
2283 kr
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The proceedings of the first major international conference on the philosophy of Spinoza to be held in the United States are published here. Contained are papers on all aspects of Spinoza's thought by 31 distinguished scholars from the United States, Europe, Israel and Australia including Jonathan …
Symbols as Power
The Papacy following the Investiture Contest
Av M. Stroll
Inbunden, 1991
2283 kr
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Symbols as Power deals with the period between the end of the Investiture Contest in 1122 and the re-establishment of the Roman Senate in 1143. It was a time of transition when popes had to chart new policies relating to the church and the empire.This study concentrates on information encoded in …
Medieval Latin Texts on the Eternity of the World
Av Richard C. Dales, Omar Argerami
Inbunden, 1991
2500 kr
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The editors of this volume have collected a large number of texts, most of them previously available only in manuscript, of a wide range of scholastic views on the problem of the eternity of the world.These selections range from William of Durham in the 1220s to John of Jandun in 1315. They …
Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone
A Critical Interpretation with a New Edition of the Text in the Codex Urbinas
Inbunden, 1992
2458 kr
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Leonardo da Vinci's arguments for the supremacy of painting over the arts of poetry, music, and sculpture address issues that have been relevant to debates over the nature of representation since the time Plato discussed imitation until today, maintains Claire Farago in this wide-ranging critical …
Helena Augusta
The mother of Constantine the Great and the legend of her finding of the true cross
Inbunden, 1991
2424 kr
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This study on Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, is divided into two parts. The purpose of the first part is to ascertain the facts of Helena's life on the basis of reliable historical sources. The second part deals with the legends concerning the discovery of the True …
Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant
Inbunden, 1992
2283 kr
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This book brings out the profound influence of the tradition of philosophical skepticism on political thought. It shows that many of the root ideas of liberalism in early modern thought were a product of engagement with the skeptical tradition.The book begins with the first extended discussion in …
British Travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period
Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces
Inbunden, 1993
2447 kr
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The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published.After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on …
Le magasin de l'univers - The Dutch Republic as the Centre of the European Book Trade
Papers Presented at the International Colloquium, held at Wassenaar, 5-7 July 1990
Av C. Berkvens-Stevelinck, H. Bots m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2351 kr
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Dutch Republic performed a crucial function as the cultural and intellectual clearinghouse of Europe. It was partly through the existence of a well-established and highly competitive publishing industry and book trade that the Dutch were able to …
Spinoza in English
A Bibliography from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Inbunden, 1991
2283 kr
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Spinoza in English is the first bibliography to bring together the entire 325-year record of books, monographs, dissertations, and articles in English on Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677), including translations of his works into English. Well over 2100 citations are presented, bringing this record …
Rose Cross and the Age of Reason
Eighteenth-century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 1992
1957 kr
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The Rose Cross deals with the interaction between two movements of thought in eighteenth-century Germany: the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and the complex of ideas known as Rosicrucian. Dating from the early seventeenth century and drawing on Pietism, Freemasonry, Kabbalah and alchemy, the …
Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness
The Information Age in Swift's A Tale of a Tub
Inbunden, 1992
2243 kr
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Casting aside critical shibboleths in place for centuries, Kenneth Craven's Jonathan Swift and the Millennium of Madness proposes a new view of intellectual history. This revisionary study documents Swift's intimate knowledge of seventeenth-century science from Bacon and the Invisible College at …
