Giles of Viterbo on Church and Reform
Author : John W. O'Malley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004477128
Author : John W. O'Malley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004477128
Author : Marie Claire O'Reilly
Publisher :
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1982
Category :
ISBN :
Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780520021457
Author : Eugenio Garin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1433 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401205221
This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which has heretofore remained virtually unknown to the Anglophonic world of scholarship.
Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319141694
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
Author : Angelo Di Berardino
Publisher :
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
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Author : Robert Wilkinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 904742252X
Focusing upon the extraordinary circumstances of the production of the editio princeps of the Syriac New Testament in 1555 and establishing a reliable history of that edition, this book offers an new account of the origin of Syriac studies in Europe and a fresh evaluation of Catholic Orientalism in the sixteenth century. The reception of Syriac into the West is shown to have been characterised, under the influence of Egidio da Viterbo and Postel, by a Christian Kabbalistic world-view which also determined the reception of other Oriental languages. The companion volume The Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible exhibits the continuing influence of Christian Kabbalism on later editions.
Author : Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 1952
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231088503
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466829303
An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. In Trickster Travels, Davis describes all the sectors of her hero's life in rich detail, scrutinizing the evidence of al-Hasan's movement between cultural worlds; the Islamic and Arab traditions, genres, and ideas available to him; and his adventures with Christians and Jews in a European community of learned men and powerful church leaders. In depicting the life of this adventurous border-crosser, Davis suggests the many ways cultural barriers are negotiated and diverging traditions are fused.
Author : Alexander Chalmers
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 1817
Category : Biography
ISBN :