Renaissance A Journal Of Discovery

Author : Sarah Tate
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447710714

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Renaissance - A Journal of Discovery by Sarah Tate Pdf

Renaissance begins with the end of a six year marriage. Sarah suddenly finds herself facing divorce, debt, and a future as a single mum-of-three.Renaissance picks up Sarah's story as she deals with the final stages of a toxic relationship. Despite it seeming as though her world has collapsed, Sarah is able to escape and close the door on her ex. With the help of family, friends, and therapy, she learns to look inside herself and find an inner strength she didn't know she had. Renaissance is a must read for anybody who's found themselves in the position of having to re-build their lives from scratch following the breakdown of a toxic relationship.

Author : Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472936387

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Age of Discovery by Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna Pdf

'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the benefits of progress? Now is humanity's best moment. And our most fragile. Global health, wealth and education are booming. Scientific discovery is flourishing. But the same forces that make big gains possible for some of us deliver big losses to others-and tangle us together in ways that make everyone vulnerable. We've been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, redrew all maps of the world, liberated information and shifted Western civilization from the medieval to the early modern era. Such change came at a price: social division, political extremism, economic shocks, pandemics and other unintended consequences of human endeavour. Now is our second Renaissance. In the face of terrorism, Brexit, refugee crises and the global impact of a Trump presidency, we can flourish-if we heed the urgent lessons of history. Age of Discovery, revised and updated for this paperback edition, shows us how.

Author : Christine R. Johnson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0813927129

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The German Discovery of the World by Christine R. Johnson Pdf

Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. The German Discovery of the World presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book brings to light the dynamic world of the German Renaissance, in which humanists, cartographers, reformers, politicians, botanists, and merchants appropriated the Portuguese and Spanish expeditions to the East and West Indies for their own purposes and, in so doing, reshaped their world. Studies in Early Modern German History

Author : Polydore Vergil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UCSC:32106017309482

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On Discovery by Polydore Vergil Pdf

On Discovery became a key reference for anyone who wanted to know about "firsts" in theology, philosophy, science, technology, literature, language, law, material culture, and other fields. Polydore took his information from dozens of Greek, Roman, biblical, and Patristic authorities. His main point was to show that many Greek and Roman claims for discovery were false and that ancient Jews or other Asian peoples had priority.

Author : Roberto Weiss
Publisher : New York, Humanities Press [c1969]
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Classical antiquities
ISBN : UCR:31210001145174

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The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity by Roberto Weiss Pdf

Author : Angela Nuovo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004208490

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The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance by Angela Nuovo Pdf

This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.

Author : Helen Nader,Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : America
ISBN : UCBK:C055272863

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Rethinking the World by Helen Nader,Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) Pdf

Author : Christopher P. Heuer
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781942130147

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Into the White by Christopher P. Heuer Pdf

How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination. European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North—a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination—offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “non-site,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts—and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy. In Into the White, Heuer uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earth—long before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea of image itself.

Author : Terry Comito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Gardens, Renaissance
ISBN : OCLC:464226735

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Renaissance Gardens and the Discovery of Paradise by Terry Comito Pdf

Author : Don Cameron Allen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421435282

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Mysteriously Meant by Don Cameron Allen Pdf

Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.

Author : Paul Maurice Clogan
Publisher : Medievalia Et Humanistica
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 084767777X

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Renaissance and Discovery by Paul Maurice Clogan Pdf

This is number 19 in the Medievalia et Humanistica series - it deals specifically with the Columbian quincentenary.

Author : Kathy Eden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226526645

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The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy by Kathy Eden Pdf

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch’s encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance.Eden draws chiefly upon Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca—but also upon Plato, Demetrius, Quintilian, and many others—to show how the classical genre of the “familiar” letter emerged centuries later in the intimate styles of Petrarch, Erasmus, and Montaigne. Along the way, she reveals how the complex concept of intimacy in the Renaissance—leveraging the legal, affective, and stylistic dimensions of its prehistory in antiquity—pervades the literary production and reception of the period and sets the course for much that is modern in the literature of subsequent centuries. Eden’s important study will interest students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing.

Author : Brimax Books, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : 1858548551

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Renaissance and Discovery by Brimax Books, Limited Pdf

An accessible guide to the history of the world especially for children. It provides a detailed account of the Renaissance. Features include: quick reference sections, timelines, quotations and statistics.

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816541119

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The Great Ages of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

For more than 600 years, Western civilization has relied on exploration to learn about a wider world and universe. The Great Ages of Discovery details the different eras of Western exploration in terms of its locations, its intellectual contexts, the characteristic moral conflicts that underwrote encounters, and the grand gestures that distill an age into its essence. Historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen J. Pyne identifies three great ages of discovery in his fascinating new book. The first age of discovery ranged from the early 15th to the early 18th century, sketched out the contours of the globe, aligned with the Renaissance, and had for its grandest expression the circumnavigation of the world ocean. The second age launched in the latter half of the 18th century, spanning into the early 20th century, carrying the Enlightenment along with it, pairing especially with settler societies, and had as its prize achievement the crossing of a continent. The third age began after World War II, and, pivoting from Antarctica, pushed into the deep oceans and interplanetary space. Its grand gesture is Voyager’s passage across the solar system. Each age had in common a galvanic rivalry: Spain and Portugal in the first age, Britain and France—followed by others—in the second, and the USSR and USA in the third. With a deep and passionate knowledge of the history of Western exploration, Pyne takes us on a journey across hundreds of years of geographic trekking. The Great Ages of Discovery is an interpretive companion to what became Western civilization’s quest narrative, with the triumphs and tragedies that grand journey brought, the legacies of which are still very much with us.

Author : Robert S. Kinsman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520310032

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The Darker Vision of the Renaissance by Robert S. Kinsman Pdf

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European Renaissance. Robert S. Kinsman’s introduction examines Renaissance uses of ratio, “fancy” and “folly,” melancholy, anxietas, and alienation. Lynn White Jr. presents the essential thesis of the collection in his view that the years 1300–1650 constituted one of the most psychically disturbed eras ever in European history. The “world-alienation” of the period is analyzed by Donald R. Howard, illustrated by two poems of the late fourteenth century: Gawain and the Green Knight and Toilus and Criseyde. The flourishing of hermetic, magical, cabalistic, and astrological practices in the Renaissance is described by John G. Burke. The gentleman and courtier’s physical and psychological tensions resulting from literal exile or from psychic alienation from his lesser fellows are investigated by Lauro Martines. An analysis of the “structures” of Renaissance mysticism is provided by Kees W. Bolle. Gilbert Reaney’s essay examines ratio as the basis for the “measured” music of the fourteenth century, against which the newer duple and triple rhythms that came into prominence in the later half of the century were assessed. An essay by Marc Bensimon concerns itself with Renaissance modes of perception—as illustrated in works of art, of literature, and of philosophic speculation—that seem shaped by primordial anxieties caused by the passing of time and the fear of death. The reflections of theological notions about the “dreadful hidden will of God” in such pieces as Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus are given full background and perceptive treatment by Paul R. Sellin. Robert Kinsman concludes with his study “Folly, Melancholy, and Madness: Shifting Styles of Medical Analysis and Treatment, 1450–1675.” 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 1974.