Contemporaries of Erasmus: N-Z
Author : Peter G. Bietenholz
Publisher :
Page : 1455 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Reformation
ISBN : 9780802025074
Author : Peter G. Bietenholz
Publisher :
Page : 1455 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Reformation
ISBN : 9780802025074
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Reformation
ISBN : 9780802025074
Author : Peter G. Bietenholz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1522 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802085771
Offers biographical information about the more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and works of Erasmus who died after 1450 and were thus approximately his contemporaries.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2002-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140433906
A glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and experiences of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning scientific curiosity and love of the natural world, which led to him joining the expedition on the Beagle. Darwin follows this with survey of his career and ends with a reckoning of his life's work. Interspersed with these recollections are fascinating portraits - from his devoted wife Emma and his talented father, both bullying and kind, to the leading figures of the Victorian scientific world he counted among his friends, including Lyell and Huxley. Honest and illuminating, these memoirs reveal a man who was isolated by his controversial beliefs and whose towering achievements were attained by a life-long passion for the discoveries of science. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
ISBN :
Author : David M. Whitford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108584098
Martin Luther remains a popular, oft-quoted, referenced, lauded historical figure. He is often seen as the fulcrum upon which the medieval turned into the modern, the last great medieval or the first great modern; or, he is the Protestant hero, the virulent anti-Semite; the destroyer of Catholic decadence, or the betrayer of the peasant cause. An important but contested figure, he was all of these things. Understanding Luther's context helps us to comprehend how a single man could be so many seemingly contradictory things simultaneously. Martin Luther in Context explores the world around Luther in order to make the man and the Reformation movement more understandable. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it includes over forty short, accessible essays, all specially commissioned for this volume, which reconstruct the life and world of Martin Luther. The volume also contextualizes the scholarship and reception of Luther in the popular mind.
Author : Paul A. Elliott
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 178327610X
This first full study of Erasmus Darwin's gardening, horticulture and agriculture shows he was as keen a nature enthusiast as his grandson Charles, and demonstrates the ways in which his landscape experiences transformed his understanding of nature.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Dentistry
ISBN :
Author : Emily R. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674026834
Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.