Author : G.H. Gerrits
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004476873
Author : Ross Dealy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1487511469
This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a considered interpretation of Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu, Dealy clearly shows the two-dimensional Stoic elements in Erasmus’ thought from an early time onward. Erasmus’ genuinely philosophical disposition is evidenced in an analysis of his edition of Cicero’s De officiis. Building on stoicism Erasmus shows that Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane was not about the triumph of spirit over flesh but about the simultaneous workings of two opposite but equally essential types of value: on the one side spirit and on the other involuntary and intractable natural instincts.
Author : Douglas Catterall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004475575
This is a valuable book for anyone interested in the cultural meaning of preindustrial migration. Arguing that early modern European migrants could fundamentally influence their fate and their adopted communities, it explores the world of Scots migrants to the Dutch port of Rotterdam, c. 1600-1700. The heart of the study is a reconstruction of the social networks that Scots used to establish and sustain themselves in Rotterdam, drawn from unusually rich narrative sources. Through their social ties, Scots also told stories and kept memories as they created complex identities encompassing Rotterdam, Scotland, and places further afield. By shaping their relationships to Rotterdam, Scots had a broad impact on their adopted home. Their actions helped change Rotterdam’s political, religious, and legal fabric and even tied Rotterdam to the wider Atlantic world.
Author : Robert J. Bast
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004474994
This volume offers a fresh perspective on the patriarchal ideology of reform in early modern Germany by revealing its roots in a pan-European catechetical program that had endured a cyclical process of growth and decline since the twelfth century, with each new phase sparked by crises in Church and society. Based on sermons, reform ordinances, devotional treatises and especially catechisms, the book explores the programs developed by reformers and codified in works of religious indoctrination designed to fashion godly fathers (real and metaphorical) in home, church, and body politic. The chief product of this program, argues the author, was an ethos of social discipline that permeated the institutions of each major confession, with government gradually empowered to reach more deeply than ever before into the lives of its subjects.
Author : Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004476318
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the work of the Society of Jesus in the British Isles during the sixteenth century. Beginning with an account of brief papal missions to Ireland (1541) and Scotland (1562), it goes on to cover the foundation of a permanent mission to England (1580) and the frustration of Catholic hopes with the failure of the Spanish Armada (1588). Throughout the book, the activities of the Jesuits - preaching, propaganda, prayer and politics - are set within a wider European context, and within the framework of the Society's Constitutions. In particular, the sections on religious life and involvement in diplomacy show how flexibly the Jesuits adapted their "way of proceeding" to the religious and political circumstances of the British Isles, and to the demands of the Counter-Reformation.
Author : Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004440402
This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.
Author : John M. Frymire
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004180362
Drawing on an extensive collection of Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist sermon collections (postils), this book offers the first comprehensive, systematic presentation of standard preaching texts in early modern Germany including their creation, print production, use, and censorship.
Author : Joseph F. Patrouch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9004180303
This study seeks to examine a number of themes relating to the roles of the women's court of the central European Habsburgs. These include its role in helping consolidate their holdings in central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire and structure their relations with the rest of Europe.
Author : Karl A. E.. Enenkel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004192433
The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. The volume aims at examining its forms, functions and strategies, from a variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, art history, history of religion, philosophy, and theology.
Author : Mark D. Johnston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1800345976
Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God.
