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Author : Beno Weiss,Louis C. Pérez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004615250
An unabridged translation and edition with introduction, notes and glossary. First publication of the integral text in the English language.
Author : Catherine Atkinson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3161491874
Polydore Vergil of Urbino (ca.1470-1555) fired his readers' imagination with his encyclopaedic book On the inventors of all things ( De inventoribus rerum 1499). His account of the manifold origins of sciences, crafts and social institutions is a praise of man's inventive genius and a prototypical cultural history. Polydorus was a household name for several centuries. Erasmus envied his friend the book's success, Rabelais heaped scorn on it, Catholic censors put it on the index, while Protestants were fascinated with that papist work. In this first in-depth study of the Renaissance 'bestseller', Catherine Atkinson examines not only the Italian humanist's bona fide (mostly ancient) inventors, in books I-III, she enquires into the neglected and misunderstood, yet equally important, books IV-VIII (1521). This early modern text, written on the eve of the Reformation, is devoted to the highly controversial topic of the 'invention' of ecclesiastical institutions. The priest and humanist Vergil, who during his 50 years in England rose in the church hierarchy, is shown to be an acute observer of contemporary religious practice. He employs the inventor question (who was the first to do this?) as an instrument of historiography and by comparing medieval church rites and institutions with religious practice of antiquity, implicitly questions the singularity of the Christian church.
Author : William Alexander Hammond,Polydore Vergil,Thomas Langley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101988374X
This book delves into the inventors of history, told through the lens of Polydore Vergil. From the inventors of the alphabet to the inventors of timekeeping, the text covers an array of discoveries that have driven civilization forward. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Rob C. Wegman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780415975124
This is the first serious study of the conflict that affected music in early modern Europe in 1470s - the gradual introduction of polyphony. Examining this major change in sensibility and mentality, Rob C Wegman illuminates a key period of change in Western musical history.
Author : Meg Twycross,Sarah Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351919302
Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for masking, and they examine the purposes and rewards for participants in the activity. The authors' insight into the masking games and performances of England's medieval and early Tudor periods illuminates many aspects of the thinking and culture of the times: issues of identity and community; performance and role-play; conceptions of the psyche and of the individual's position in social and spiritual structures. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England presents a broad overview of masking practices, demonstrating how active and prominent an element of medieval and pre-modern culture masking was. It has obvious interest for drama and literature critics of the medieval and early modern periods; but is also useful for historians of culture, theatre and anthropology. Through its analysis of masked play this study engages both with the history of theatre and performance, and with broader cultural and historical questions of social organization, identity and the self, the performance of power, and shifting spiritual understanding.
Author : James Hawkey,Ben Quash,Vernon White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317126393
Taking seriously the practice and not just the theory of music, this ground-breaking collection of essays establishes a new standard for the interdisciplinary conversation between theology, musicology, and liturgical studies. The public making of music in our society happens more often in the context of chapels, churches, and cathedrals than anywhere else. The command to sing and make music to God makes music an essential part of the DNA of Christian worship. The book’s three main parts address questions about the history, the performative contexts, and the nature of music. Its opening four chapters traces how accounts of music and its relation to God, the cosmos, and the human person have changed dramatically through Western history, from the patristic period through medieval, Reformation and modern times. A second section examines the role of music in worship, and asks what—if anything—makes a piece of music suitable for religious use. The final part of the book shows how the serious discussion of music opens onto considerations of time, tradition, ontology, anthropology, providence, and the nature of God. A pioneering set of explorations by a distinguished group of international scholars, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in Christianity’s long relationship with music, including those working in the fields of theology, musicology, and liturgical studies.
Author : Jonathan Arnold
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783272600
How do contemporary audiences engage with sacred music and what are its effects?
Author : Catherine Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3161560396
Author : Professor Helen King
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409463375
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.
Author : Renaud Gagné,Simon Goldhill,Geoffrey Lloyd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004387638
Comparatism is reflexive comparison. The regime of comparatism is the horizon of knowledge in which each individual comparison is received and judged. The aim of this book is to turn the comparative insight on itself and compare different comparative moments, exploring various frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology.
Author : David C. Lindberg,Robert S. Westman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521348048
A compendium offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution from a spectrum of scholars engaged in the study of 16th and 17th century science. Many accepted views and interpretations of the scientific revolution are challenged.
Author : Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226155111
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UCSD:31822032314452
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801484928
In this collection of essays, of which four are published here for the first time, Peter Burke explores the theory and practice of what is called "new cultural history." He focuses on the varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the writings of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. No new orthodoxy has emerged to replace the classic model, Burke suggests, despite the importance of innovative approaches inspired by social and cultural anthropology. After discussing the origins and identity of cultural history, Burke explores the social history of dreams and the relation between history and social memory. He presents five case studies addressing topics in the history of early modern Italy. Each is located on the frontiers of cultural history--between learned and popular culture, between the public and the private spheres, and between the serious and the comic. Burke then turns to the encounter between Europe and the New World and to the phenomenon of cultural translation in the etymological, literal, and metaphorical senses of the term. He concludes with two theoretical investigations: one on the history of mentalities and one which asks why cultural history seems doomed to fragmentation.
Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695
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.
