Cultural Encounters Cross Disciplinary Studies From The Late Middle Ages To The Enlightenment

Author : Désirée Cappa,James Christie,Lorenza Gay,Hanna Gentili,Finn Schulze-Feldmann
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781622735372

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Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Désirée Cappa,James Christie,Lorenza Gay,Hanna Gentili,Finn Schulze-Feldmann Pdf

This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the multi- and interdisciplinary approach, with papers on a broad range of historical times, places, and subjects. While each essay makes a valuable and original contribution to its relevant field(s), the collection as a whole is an attempt to probe more general questions and issues concerning the productive outcomes of cultural encounters throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The collection is divided into three sections organised thematically and chronologically. The first, ‘Encounters with the Past,’ focuses on the reception of classical antiquity in medieval images and texts from France, Italy and the British Isles. The second, ‘Encounters with Religion,’ presents a selection of instances in which political, philosophical and natural philosophical issues arise within inter-religious contexts. The final section, ‘Encounters with Humanity,’ contains essays on early science fiction, political symbolism, and Elizabethan drama theory, all of which deal with the conception and expression of humanity, on both the individual and societal level. This volume’s wide range of topics and methodological approaches makes it an important point of reference for researchers and practitioners within the humanities who have an interest in the (cross-)cultural history of the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009330367

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Twilight of the Godlings by Francis Young Pdf

A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain's small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings.

Author : James E. Christie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030221690

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From Influence to Inhabitation by James E. Christie Pdf

This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Founded in the mid-1990s, the discipline of astrobiology combines the search for extraterrestrial life with the study of terrestrial biology – especially its origins, its evolution and its presence in extreme environments. This book offers a history of astrobiology's attempts to understand the nature of life in a larger cosmological context. Specifically, it describes the shift of early modern cosmology from a paradigm of celestial influence to one of celestial inhabitation. Although these trends are regarded as consequences of Copernican cosmology, and hallmarks of a modern world view, they are usually addressed separately in the historical literature. Unlike others, this book takes a broad approach that examines the relationship of the two. From Influence to Inhabitation will benefit both historians of astrology and historians of the extraterrestrial life debate, an audience which includes researchers and advanced students studying the history and philosophy of astrobiology. It will also appeal to historians of natural philosophy, science, astronomy and theology in the early modern period.

Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004459960

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Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650 by Ovanes Akopyan Pdf

This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004537514

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Rediscovering Enoch? The Antediluvian Past from the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries by Anonim Pdf

As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.

Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004442276

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Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance by Ovanes Akopyan Pdf

An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.

Author : K. Attar,L. Shutters
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349502847

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Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters by K. Attar,L. Shutters Pdf

Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.

Author : Thomas Hahn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350300002

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A Cultural History of Race in the Middle Ages by Thomas Hahn Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experienced, and enacted racializing differences. Addressing events, texts, and images from the 5th to the 16th centuries, these essays by ten eminent scholars provide broad, multi-disciplinary analyses of materials whose origins range from the British Isles, Western Iberia, and North Africa across Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East. These diverse communities possessed no single word equivalent to modern race, a term (raza) for genetic, religious, cultural, or territorial difference that emerges only at the end of the medieval period. Chapter by chapter, this volume nonetheless demonstrates the manifold beliefs, practices, institutions, and images that conveyed and enforced difference for the benefit of particular groups and to the detriment of others. Addressing the varying historiographical self-consciousness concerning race among medievalist scholars themselves, the separate analyses make use of paradigms drawn from social and political history, religious, environmental, literary, ethnic, and gender studies, the history of art and of science, and critical race theory. Chapters identify the eruption of racial discourses aroused by political or religious polemic, centered upon conversion within and among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communions, and inspired by imagined or sustained contact with alien peoples. Authors draw their evidence from Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, and a profusion of European vernaculars, and provide searching examinations of visual artefacts ranging from religious service books to maps, mosaics, and manuscript illuminations

Author : Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen,Marie-Louise Nosch,Maj Ringgaard,Kirsten Toftegaard
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781782973829

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Fashionable Encounters by Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen,Marie-Louise Nosch,Maj Ringgaard,Kirsten Toftegaard Pdf

At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the time frame AD 1500Ð1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social, political and economic change, from feudal Europe through political revolution, industrialisation, development of international trade, religious upheaval and technological innovation; changes impacting on every aspect of life and reflected in equally rapid and widespread changes in fashion at all levels of society. These papers present a broad image of the theme of fashion as a concept and as an empirical manifestation in the Nordic countries in early modernity, exploring a variety of ways in which that world encountered fashionable impressions in clothing and related aspects of material culture from Europe, the Russian Empire, and far beyond. The chapters range from object-based studies to theory-driven analysis. Elite and sophisticated fashions, the importation of luxuries and fashion garments, christening and bridal wear, silk knitted waistcoats, woollen sweaters and the influence of the whaling trade on womenÕs clothing are some of the diverse topics considered, as well as religious influences on perceptions of luxury and aspects of the garment trade and merchant inventories.

Author : Simon Coleman,Susan B. Hyatt,Ann Kingsolver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317590668

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology by Simon Coleman,Susan B. Hyatt,Ann Kingsolver Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced international team of contributors, with an interdisciplinary range of essays, this collection provides a powerful overview of the transformations currently affecting anthropology. The volume both addresses the concerns of the discipline and comments on its construction through texts, classroom interactions, engagements with various publics, and changing relations with other academic subjects. Persuasively demonstrating that a number of key contemporary issues can be usefully analyzed through an anthropological lens, the contributors cover important topics such as globalization, law and politics, collaborative archaeology, economics, religion, citizenship and community, health, and the environment. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is a fascinating examination of this lively and constantly evolving discipline.

Author : Cornell University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101553729

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Cornell University Courses of Study by Cornell University Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN : UVA:X006186287

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Himalayan Research Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN : UOM:39015052822643

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The Himalayan Research Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stewart Angas Weaver
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199946952

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Exploration by Stewart Angas Weaver Pdf

This clear, succinct, and elegant contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series surveys the history of global exploration and assesses the motives, for good and ill, of those who undertook it. Stewart Weaver traces the history of exploration from the first explorers (including Polynesian and Micronesian peoples, the ancient Greeks, Marco Polo, and Ibn BattÐta), to the European discover of America, the Enlightenment and exploration (focusing on James Cook), and the race to the north and south poles

Author : Mary Elizabeth Perry,Anne J. Cruz
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520301245

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Cultural Encounters by Mary Elizabeth Perry,Anne J. Cruz Pdf

More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able to survive the Inquisition by means of diverse strategies—whether Christianized Jews in Spain preserving their experiences in literature, or native American folk healers practicing medical care. These investigations of social resistance and cultural persistence will reinforce the cultural significance of the Inquisition. Contributors: Jaime Contreras, Anne J. Cruz, Jesús M. De Bujanda, Richard E. Greenleaf, Stephen Haliczer, Stanley M. Hordes, Richard L. Kagan, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Moshe Lazar, Angus I. K. MacKay, Geraldine McKendrick, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Noemí Quezada, María Helena Sanchez Ortega, Joseph H. Silverman This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.