Book Description
The world of the Middle Ages brought to life through a rich variety of writings from four centuries.
Author : James Bruce Ross
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The world of the Middle Ages brought to life through a rich variety of writings from four centuries.
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1977-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101173742
In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars—that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window."
Author : James Bruce Ross
Publisher :
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN :
Author : James Bruce Ross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1977-08-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0140150617
Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.
Author : John Raymond Shinners
Publisher : Readings in Medieval Civilizat
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442601062
This new edition is a marvelous teaching tool and true feast for the intellectually curious. - Daniel Bornstein, Texas A&M University
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1995-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 110112797X
The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
Author : Andreas (Capellanus.)
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780231073059
The social system of 'courtly love' soon spread after becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century. This book codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into "one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization."
Author : Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN :
A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author : DavidS. Areford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351539671
Structured around in-depth and interconnected case studies and driven by a methodology of material, contextual, and iconographic analysis, this book argues that early European single-sheet prints, in both the north and south, are best understood as highly accessible objects shaped and framed by individual viewers. Author David Areford offers a synthetic historical narrative of early prints that stresses their unusual material nature, as well as their accessibility to a variety of viewers, both lay and monastic. This volume represents a shift in the study of the early printed image, one that mirrors the widespread movement in art history away from issues of production, style, and the artist toward issues of reception, function, and the viewer. Areford's approach is intensely grounded in the object, especially the unacknowledged material complexity of the print as a portable, malleable, and accessible image that depended on a response that was not only visual but often physical, emotional, and psychological. Recognizing that early prints were not primarily designed for aesthetic appreciation, the author analyzes how their meanings stemmed from specific functions involving private devotion, protection, indulgences, the cult of saints, pilgrimage, exorcism, the art of memory, and anti-Semitic propaganda. Although the medium's first century was clearly transitional and experimental, Areford explores how its potential to impact viewers in new ways?both positive and negative?was quickly realized.
Author : Laura Saetveit Miles
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843845342
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.