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Worlds of Petrarch
Häftad, 1993
394 kr
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At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of …
Bible in the Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 1996
301 kr
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A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the thesis that the intellectual and religious life of the sixteenth century cannot be understood without …
Prierias
The Life and Works of Silvestro Mazzolini Da Prierio (1456–1527)
Inbunden, 1997
899 kr
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The Italian Dominican friar Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio (1456–1527), known as Prierias, is chiefly remembered as the church official designated to respond to Luther’s 95 theses of December 1517-a response blamed for fanning the flames of the Reformation throughout Europe. In Prierias, Michael …
Renaissance Transactions
Ariosto and Tasso
Häftad, 1999
443 kr
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The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. Applying current critical theories and tools, the essays in Renaissance Transactions reexamine …
Humanism and Secularization
From Petrarch to Valla
Inbunden, 2003
1183 kr
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The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to these debates-and to this book-is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed to …
Utter Antiquity
Perceptions of Prehistory in Renaissance England
Inbunden, 1992
584 kr
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Historians know a great deal about how English thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the "documentable" past, but relatively little about how they perceived times stretching back beyond history. Arthur B. Ferguson shows in this elegant essay that prehistory had great meaning in …
Worlds of Petrarch
Inbunden, 1993
1651 kr
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At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of …
Al-Ghazali and the Ashárite School
Inbunden, 1994
819 kr
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Widely regarded among students of medieval thought as the most important of the medieval Islamic thinkers, al-Ghazali (1058–1111) remains an extremely complex figure whose texts continue to present serious challenges for scholars. In this book, Richard M. Frank confronts the traditional view of …
Renaissance Transactions
Ariosto and Tasso
Inbunden, 1999
1522 kr
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The controversy generated in Italy by the writings of Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso during the sixteenth century was the first historically important debate on what constitutes modern literature. Applying current critical theories and tools, the essays in Renaissance Transactions reexamine …
