The Redemption of Chivalry
Author : Pauline Maud Matarasso
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9782600035699
Milton's Angels
Author : Joad Raymond
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191609757
Book Description
Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background. Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them rely on his understanding of what they were and how they acted. While he was unique in the sublimity of his imaginative rendering of angels, he was not alone in writing about them. Several early-modern English poets wrote epics that explore the actions of and grounds of knowledge about angels. Angels were intimately linked to theories of representation, and theology could be a creative force. Natural philosophers and theologians too found it interesting or necessary to explore angel doctrine. Angels did not disappear in Reformation theology: though centuries of Catholic traditions were stripped away, Protestants used them in inventive ways, adapting tradition to new doctrines and to shifting perceptions of the world. Angels continued to inhabit all kinds of writing, and shape the experience and understanding of the world. Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative.
Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought
Author : Brian J. Gibbons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521526487
Book Description
An evaluation of the intellectual legacy in England of the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624).
Warding Off Evil
Author : Michael J. Morris
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161552632
Book Description
In this study, Michael J. Morris examines aspects of synoptic gospel demonology; specifically, human responses to demonic evil. It is clear that early Christian demonology can be more fully understood against the background of early Jewish traditions. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, for instance, there are two fundamental ways by which protection against demons is sought. The first anti-demonic method is "exorcism," and the second is characterized by its preventative nature and is typically referred to as "apotropaism." Although many contributions have been made on the topic of exorcism in the gospels, less attention has been paid to the presence of apotropaic features in the gospel texts. Therefore, Michael J. Morris offers a timely examination of apotropaic tradition in early Judaism and its significance for demonological material in the synoptic gospels.
Conspiracy and Virtue
Author : Susan Wiseman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191607118
Book Description
What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England? Responding to this question, Conspiracy and Virtue argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. Rather than producing silence, this exclusion generated rich, complex, and oblique political involvements which this study traces through the writings of both men and women. Pursuing this argument Conspiracy and Virtue engages the main writings on women's relationship to the political sphere including debates on the public sphere and on contract theory. Writers and figures discussed include Elizabeth Avery, Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Maragret Cavendish, Queen Christina of Sweden, Anne Halkett, Brilliana Harley, Lucy Hutchinson, John Milton, Elizabeth Poole, Sara Wight, and Henry Jessey.
Melancholy, Love, and Time
Author : Peter G. Toohey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472025597
Book Description
Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the Classical, Hellenistic, and especially the Roman imperial periods in a study that illuminates the cultural and aesthetic significance of this emotionally charged literature. His probing analysis shows that a shifting representation of these afflicted states, and the concomitant sense of isolation from one's social affinities and surroundings, manifests a developing sense of the self and self-consciousness in the ancient world. This book makes important contributions to a variety of disciplines including classical studies, comparative literature, literary and art history, history of medicine, history of emotions, psychiatry, and psychology. Peter Toohey is Professor and Department Head of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Two Saints
Author : G. G. Coulton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107633230
Book Description
This 1932 book describes the lives and influence of St Bernard and St Francis, and also contains a variety of illustrative figures.
The Tower of Fools
Author : Andrzej Sapkowski
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316423688
Book Description
"A fantastic novel that any fan of The Witcher will instantly appreciate." —The Gamer Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series has become a fantasy phenomenon, finding millions of fans worldwide and inspiring the hit Netflix show and video games. Now the bestselling author introduces readers to a new hero on an epic journey in The Tower of Fools, the first book of the Hussite Trilogy. Reinmar of Bielawa, sometimes known as Reynevan, is a healer, a magician, and according to some, a charlatan. When a thoughtless indiscretion forces him to flee his home, he finds himself pursued not only by brothers bent on vengeance but by the Holy Inquisition. In a time when tensions between Hussite and Catholic countries are threatening to turn into war and mystical forces are gathering in the shadows, Reynevan's journey will lead him to the Narrenturm—the Tower of Fools. The Tower is an asylum for the mad...or for those who dare to think differently and challenge the prevailing order. And escaping it, avoiding the conflict around him, and keeping his own sanity will prove more difficult than he ever imagined "A ripping yarn delivered with world-weary wit, bursting at the seams with sex, death, magic and madness." —Joe Abercrombie "This is historical fantasy done right." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A highly enjoyable historical fantasy." —Booklist The Tower of Fools is an historical novel set during the Hussite Wars in Bohemia during the 1400s, a period of religious conflict and persecution. Characters in the novel may express views that some readers might find offensive. Also by Andrzej Sapkowski: Witcher collections The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Witcher novels Blood of Elves The Time of Contempt Baptism of Fire The Tower of Swallows Lady of the Lake Season of Storms The Malady and Other Stories: An Andrzej Sapkowski Sampler (e-only) Translated by David French
The Credibility of the Gospel History
Author : Nathaniel Lardner
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1753
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
The History of English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century
Author : George Peabody Gooch
Publisher : Cambridge, University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
