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Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9057550970
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812241303
In Old World, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.
Author : John Michael Archer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804743371
This book aligns ancient and early modern European travel narratives and historical surveys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts that contributed to English ideas about those regions: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Love's Labour's Lost, Milton's Paradise Lost and Muscovia, and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe.
Author : Lisa Kaaren Bailey,Lindsay Diggelmann,Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : PSU:000067790005
Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational to modern mentalities: race, ethnicity, nation, and the nature of humanity. The consequences were profound: both productive and destructive. At the beginning of the third millennium CE we occupy a world shaped by those centuries of travel and encounter. This collection examines key themes and moments in European cultural expansion. Unlike many studies it spans both the medieval and early modern periods, challenging the stereotype of the post-Columbus 'age of discovery'. There is room too for examining cross-cultural relationships within Europe and regions closely linked to it, to show that curiosity, conflict and transformation could result from such meetings as they did in more far-flung realms. Several essays deal with authors, events, and ideas which will be unfamiliar to most readers but which deserve greater attention in the history of encounter and exploration.
Author : Kenneth Mills,Anthony Grafton
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580461239
A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times. This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously debated. The historical settings treated here stretch from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century southern India and Andean Peru, from Bohemia to China during the age of the Reformations, from the fifteenth-century Low Countries to seventeenth-century New France and from the nineteenth-century Minnesota borderlands to late colonial Zimbabwe and modern India. The book's broad mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge about particular places and times, and spark new thinking about religious change, cultural appropriations, and interactive emergence across discipline and fields. This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, is also published by the University of Rochester Press.
Author : Children's Book Council of Australia NSW Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645154504
A rich anthology of stories, plays, poetry and illustrations from members of CBCA NSW Branch to engage children in the 2021 theme for CBCA Book Week and beyond. Created by over 70 contributors, including some of the most well loved Australian children's literature creatives as well as many up-and-coming. The Foreward is from the NSW Governor, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC and Mir Wilson, introduction from Ursula Dubosarsky the Australian Children's Laureate and acknowledgement of Country in Dharug by Jasmine Seymour. All the work has been donated by the creatives and developed by the dedicated committee of the CBCA NSW Branch Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch.Funds raised by the sales of this anthology will further the work of Bothe the CBCA NSW Branch and their Eastern Suburbs Sub-branch in fulfilling their shared purpose: to ensure Australian children have stories written for them, to support and celebrate the work of our Australian creatives, and to promote the joy of reading.
Author : Arthur Joseph Penty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B266305
Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0838637981
Wilfrid Mellers ranks among the most eminent of contemporary British writers and lecturers on music. The range of his interest is exceptionally wide, encompassing music from the renaissance to the present day, from Monteverdi to Minimalism, not excluding jazz and many different forms of popular music, as well as music from non-western cultures. That breadth of vision is nowhere more apparent than in his occasional writings. In these necessarily concentrated and closely focused pieces we find the essence of his thinking about music, its nature and its meaning. Written in the first instance for the general reader, they also offer insights that should be of importance to music students in schools, colleges, and universities.
Author : Lawrence Principe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199567416
Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674254121
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
Author : Gerhard Richter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262544146
An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is created, that is, a world that over time perishes or decays beyond interpretive understanding, and the new world that the artwork opens up. The multiple relations between these worlds are examined in a number of central thinkers and in various modes of aesthetic production, including poetry, painting, music, film, literature, and photography. It is precisely in and through the work of art, Richter shows, that central elements of the thinking of world as world are negotiated in the most essential and moving ways. Exploring the relationship between these worlds through art and European philosophy, Richter offers bold new interpretations of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida. The book also provides stimulating new insights into the works of heterogeneous artists such as Paul Celan, Friedrich Hölderlin, Werner Herzog, Arnold Schönberg, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Andrew Moore, Botho Strauß, Didier Eribon, and even prehistoric cave painters. In each case, Richter’s readings are guided by a consideration of the conceptual constraints and singular interpretive demands imposed by the specific genre and medium.
Author : William Brandon
Publisher : Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : America
ISBN : WISC:89016626848
Author : Caroline Daley,Melanie Nolan
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814718704
The 1980s and 1990s have seen an unprecedented emphasis on global feminism, on the connectedness of women regardless of race, class, or geography. And yet, the status and position of women throughout the world remains enormously disparate. Even so fundamental an issue as a woman's right to vote has been--and in many countries continues to be--hotly contested. How then have suffrage movements evolved? What are the similarities and differences in the manner in which women, in a range of different economic, religious, and political contexts, have sought the vote? Bringing together such eminent scholars as Nancy Cott, Ellen Dubois, and Carole Pateman, Suffrage and Beyond offers a comprehensive look at the political history of suffrage on a global scale.
Author : Charles E. Oxnard
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812797438
The Leverhulme Trust (UK) required Charles Oxnard to present a series of public lectures during his tenure of a Leverhulme Professorship at University College, London. The lectures had to be understandable not only to undergraduate and graduate students and colleagues, but also to the interested lay public. Furthermore, they were expected to meet and venture beyond present-day thought in the subject. This near-impossible task is reproduced in this unique volume.Each chapter shows what is rarely, if ever, done in scientific papers: how the problems truly arose; how the methods came about; the curious collaborators involved; the twists and turns of thought involved in the stories; the solutions that have so far appeared; and the surprising new ideas that stem from the work. In particular, the part played by serendipity becomes ever more evident. Research is very often a kind of ?Alice-in-Wonderland? task, and both students and the public alike are fascinated by the inside stories of how discoveries are really made. It is precisely this excitement and complexity that is presented in this book.
Author : Lewis R. Rambo,Charles E. Farhadian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199713547
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.