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The papers illustrate the different ways in which the Renaissance made use of its classical heritage.
Author : R. R. Bolgar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 1976-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521208408
The papers illustrate the different ways in which the Renaissance made use of its classical heritage.
Author : Wolfgang Haase
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 311087024X
Author : Robert R. Bolgar
Publisher :
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : R. R. Bolgar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521142434
This volume examines the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from 1650 to 1870.
Author : Alberto Cevolini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004325255
We are so accustomed to use digital memories as data storage devices, that we are oblivious to the improbability of such a practice. Habit hides what we habitually use. To understand the worldwide success of archives and card indexing systems that allow to remember more because they allow to forget more than before, the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age must be investigated. This volume contains contributions by nearly every distinguished scholar in the field of early modern knowledge management and filing systems, and offers a remarkable synthesis of the present state of scholarship. A final section explores some current issues in record-keeping and note-taking systems, and provides valuable cues for future research.
Author : William E. Wiethoff
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820336327
In early-nineteenth-century America, and especially in the Old South, the use of oratory appealed to legal professionals--judges as well as advocates. Consistent with the humanism proclaimed in classical and neoclassical works, appellate judges perceived their civic duties to demand oratorical skill as well as legal expertise. In A Peculiar Humanism, William E. Wiethoff assesses the judicial use of oratory in reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery despite the customary restraints placed on judicial advocacy. Drawing attention to a neglected intersection of law and letters, Wiethoff analyzes the proslavery discourse embedded in antebellum judicial opinions by examining the public addresses, judicial narratives, and private papers of sixty-nine appellate judges. By contrasting the judges' proslavery appeals in a variety of cases in the upper and deep South, Wiethoff shows how context shaped the judges' perceptions, priorities, and arguments. An outstanding contribution to the literature on law and slavery, A Peculiar Humanism testifies to the character of the legal profession in the Old South and serves as an index of the beliefs and attitudes that coexisted with legal decision making.
Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532614934
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In this volume, Jeffrey Morrow examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. He explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. Morrow concludes the volume with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using the example of Catholic moral theology in the twentieth century.
Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0199546495
In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Author : Blair Hoxby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191065994
Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral freedom before finally crushing him, thus generating our ambivalent sense of terrible waste coupled with spiritual consolation. Yet far from being a timeless truth, this account of tragedy only emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. What Was Tragedy? demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite all the twists and turns of critical fashion in the twentieth century, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795. By reconstructing that poetics, Blair Hoxby makes sense of plays that are "merely pathetic, not truly tragic," of operas with happy endings, of Christian tragedies, and of other plays that advertised themselves as tragedies to early modern audiences and yet have subsequently been denied the palm of tragedy by critics. In doing so, Hoxby not only illuminates masterpieces by Shakespeare, Calderón, Corneille, Racine, Milton, and Mozart, he also revivifies a vast repertoire of tragic drama and opera that has been relegated to obscurity by critical developments since 1800. He suggests how many of these plays might be reclaimed as living works of theater. And by reconstructing a lost conception of tragedy both ancient and modern, he illuminates the hidden assumptions and peculiar blind-spots of the idealist critical tradition that runs from Schelling, Schlegel, and Hegel, through Wagner, Nietzsche, and Freud, up to modern post-structuralism.
Author : Freyja Cox Jensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9004233032
Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England.