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European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) in Context
Celebrating Nature and Creation
Inbunden, 2022
1586 kr
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Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. It was a crucial, albeit often underestimated element in the intellectual as well as socio-cultural establishment …
François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention
Ingenious Animation
Inbunden, 2025
1730 kr
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François Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in Rabelaisian scholarship between …
The Mishnaic Moment
Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe
Av Piet van Boxel, Piet van Boxel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2119 kr
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This collection of essays treats a topic that has scarcely been approached in the literature on Hebrew and Hebraism in the early modern period. In the seventeenth century, Christians, especially Protestants, studied the Mishnah alongside a host of Jewish commentaries in order to reconstruct Jewish …
Constructing a Renaissance Pope
Rhetoric, Ceremony, and Authority in the Age of Leo X (1513–1521)
Inbunden, 2026
1789 kr
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Constructing a Renaissance Pope: Rhetoric, Ceremony, and Authority in the Age of Leo X (1513-1521) examines the rhetoric and ceremony of the papal court during the pontificate of Pope Leo X (1513-1521). The son of Lorenzo de' Medici, Leo has been celebrated for bringing a Golden Age of cultural …
Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century
Inbunden, 1963
1059 kr
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This book collects eight lectures given at the Warburg Institute in 1958-59 by Scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States. They are concerned with the aftermath of the conversion of Constantine - the conflicts between pagans and Christians and their effects on the life and …
Joseph Scaliger: I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis
Inbunden, 1983
4735 kr
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This volume is the first half of an intellectual biography of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the greatest classical scholar of his time. Anthony Grafton describes Scaliger's early work as an editor of and commentator on classical texts, setting this into the wider context of classical scholarship in …
Giotto and the Orators
Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition
Häftad, 1986
1811 kr
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`This handsomely illustrated book is an original attempt to make clear how much the art of the orators and the painters in the Renaissance had in common ... Extremely important for the history of art.' Neo-Latin News
The Government of Florence under the Medici (1434 to 1494)
Inbunden, 1997
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5160 kr
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The Government of Florence Under the Medici 1434-1494 investigates the ways in which the Medici established and exercised their authority. Although de facto rulers of Florence, they wielded their power within the structure of the Florentine constitution and enjoyed no political rights and …
Commonplace Learning
Ramism and its German Ramifications, 1543-1630
Inbunden, 2007
5148 kr
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Ramism was the most controversial pedagogical movement to sweep through the Protestant world in the latter sixteenth century. While its origins in France, its impact in colonial America, and its influence in England, Scotland, and Ireland have been studied in detail, its uniquely warm reception in …
The Apocryphal Apocalypse
The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 1999
5468 kr
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This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Professor Hamilton discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which …
Criticism and Confession
The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters
Inbunden, 2017
2705 kr
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The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment has long been regarded as the zenith of the 'republic of letters', a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and intellectuals who fostered critical approaches to the study of the Bible and other ancient texts, while …
The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2014
830 kr
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This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, …
The Copts and the West, 1439-1822
The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church
Häftad, 2014
805 kr
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In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early …
The Invention of Papal History
Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform
Av Stefan Bauer
Inbunden, 2019
2031 kr
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How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and …
Making Mathematical Culture
University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples
Inbunden, 2018
1958 kr
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In 1503, for the first time, a student in Paris was able to spend his entire university career studying only the printed textbooks of his teacher, thanks to the works of the humanist and university reformer Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (c. 1455-1536). As printed books became central to the …
Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850
Inbunden, 2023
1953 kr
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During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of …
The Invention of Papal History
Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform
Av Stefan Bauer
Häftad, 2023
634 kr
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How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and …
Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Verisimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate
Inbunden, 2024
1682 kr
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While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical truth. Some authors equated historical truth with verisimilitude, thus harmonizing the quest for truth with other ingredients of their histories, such …
The Grammar School
A Cognitive History, C. 1450-1700
Inbunden, 2027
2140 kr
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The Grammar School: A Cognitive History, c. 1450-1700 explores the evolution of Latin education in English grammar schools from the mid-fifteenth to the turn of the eighteenth century. By interweaving book history with modern cognitive science, the book examines how the paper and printing …
Print and the Remaking of Theology in Paris, 1490–1540
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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At the turn of the sixteenth century, theology was the most prestigious of the academic disciplines, yet its meaning and authority were increasingly unsettled. For centuries, the University of Paris had stood at the centre of theological learning in Latin Christendom, training generations of …
The Elect Nation
The Savonarolan Movement in Florence, 1494-1545
Inbunden, 1994
3727 kr
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The Elect Nation is the first comprehensive study of the religious, political and cultural movement inspired by Savonarola. Based on a thorough examination of archival material and manuscript sources, the book argues that the followers of Savonarola exercised a profound influence on every facet of …
Joseph Scaliger: II: Historical Chronology
Inbunden, 1993
6235 kr
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During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries technical chronology, the study of calendars and of dates in ancient and medieval history, was both a fashionable and a controversial discipline. Theologians debated the dates of the Creation, the Flood, and the Crucifixion. Astronomers and historians …
Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy
Av Sydney Anglo
Inbunden, 1997
3154 kr
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Sydney Anglo discusses every English royal entry, festival, disguising, masque, and tournament from the accession of Henry VII to the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth I. Based principally on primary sources, his study is analytical rather than descriptive. In 1969, when this book first …
Children of the Promise
The Confraternity of the Purification and the Socialization of Youths in Florence, 1427-1785
Inbunden, 2004
1512 kr
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Lorenzo Polizzotto examines the educational, religious, political, and philanthropic practices of the Florentine youth confraternity of the Purification. Founded in 1427 at a time of unbounded optimism in Florence's future, the Purification was entrusted with the socialization of the youths. With …
Machiavelli - The First Century
Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance
Av Sydney Anglo
Inbunden, 2005
5349 kr
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Between 1513 and 1525 Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters. One of these (the 'Arte della guerra') was published in 1521, but the rest of his major writings were not published until 1531-2, nearly five years after his death. They …
History of Scholarship
A Selection of Papers from the Seminar on the History of Scholarship Held Annually at the Warburg Institute
Av Christopher Ligota, Jean-Louis Quantin
Inbunden, 2006
3406 kr
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The history of scholarship has undergone a complete renewal in recent years, and is now a major branch of research with vast territories to explore; a substantial introduction to History of Scholarship surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.The …
The Copts and the West, 1439-1822
The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church
Inbunden, 2006
4231 kr
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In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early …
Transmitting Knowledge
Words, Images, and Instruments in Early Modern Europe
Av Sachiko Kusukawa, Ian Maclean
Inbunden, 2006
4689 kr
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The period between the fifteenth and the middle of the seventeenth centuries saw a great many changes and innovations in scientific thinking. These were communicated to various publics in diverse ways; not only through discursive prose and formal notations, but also in the form of instruments and …
