The Practical Renaissance

Author : Donna A. Seger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350200227

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What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the diffusion and reception of prescriptive publications over the 16th and 17th centuries. Published in an age of dynamic religious and political change, these texts demonstrate the universal desire for health and wealth, a fortified body and an orderly household. Showing how classical and continental information had been "Englished" over time, this book shows how new publications supplanted these traditional ideas with more empirical and authoritative knowledge. Published in an age of dynamic religious and political change, these texts, which include plague tracts, husbandry handbooks, printed recipe books, and navigation manuals, demonstrate the universal desire for health and wealth, a fortified body and an orderly household. Divided into three parts, the opening chapters explore factors which affected the diffusion of practical knowledge via prescriptive texts. Part two focuses on the interaction between new discoveries and traditional authority, and the final section considers debates in the 'medical marketplace', the term 'knowledge-mongerer' and the commodification of knowledge at this time. A thorough exploration into the popular and pragmatic expressions of the period, The Practical Renaissance offers a new window into the movement in which knowledge and information became power.

Author : Donna A. Seger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350200239

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Introduction: Jewels Abound -- Part I (1500-1557): Diffusion -- Chapter 1: Regimens and -- Rules: The Rudiments of Health and Husbandry -- Chapter 2: Mathematics and -- Mensuration -- Part II (1558-1603): Discovery -- Chapter 3: Elizabethan Exploration and Experimentation: What's New -- a. -- Alchemy Assimilated -- b. New Lands, New Crops, New Cures, New Trees, New Foods -- c. -- Husbandry and Huswifery -- Chapter 4: The -- Navigators -- Part III: (1604-1640): Debate -- Chapter 5. The Plague and Public Health in Early Stuart London -- Chapter 6: The Knowledge-Mongers -- a. -- Gervase -- Markham and the Way to Get Wealth -- b. -- Ready Reckoning and Reference -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Robert J. Summer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Choral music
ISBN : 0810882809

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Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor by Robert J. Summer Pdf

Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor: A Practical Guide addresses the study and performance of Renaissance music in a way that is understandable to the musician at any level. It describes how to find a good edition, mark scores, rehearse, and conduct this type of music. It explains complex ideas from proportion to linear analysis and supplies step-by-step instructions on presenting "madrigal dinners"--ideal vehicles for the presentation of Renaissance music. This guide contains traditional toasts, stage directions, lists of appropriate music, and even instruction on selected Renaissance dances. Summer also includes a large number of musical scores to aid in his explanations on marking scores, conducting, and analyzing polyphonic music. Renaissance Music for the Choral Conductor is the ideal textbook for choral literature and choral conducting classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It can serve as a reference for anyone who wishes to program and explore music from this period in greater depth, including church musicians and conductors of professional ensembles. The book concludes with a bibliography, glossary, and selected discography.

Author : Peter Brooker,Peter Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317903567

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A Practical Reader in Contemporary Literary Theory by Peter Brooker,Peter Widdowson Pdf

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical analyses, largely by 20th century Anglo-American literary critics, set around major literary texts that undergraduate students are known to be familiar with. It is specifically targeted to present literary criticism through practical examples of essays by literary theorists themselves, on texts both within and outside the literary canon. Four example essays are included for each author/text presented.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Education
ISBN : OXFORD:555034843

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The Practical Teacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judith Veronica Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198523949

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The Invention of Infinity by Judith Veronica Field Pdf

Fully illustrated, this story brings together the histories of arts and mathematics and shows how infinity at last acquired a precise mathematical meaning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Industrial arts
ISBN : MINN:31951002806134Q

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The Practical Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold Donaldson Eberlein,Abbot McClure,Edward Stratton Holloway
Publisher : Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : UCAL:B3258631

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The Practical Book of Interior Decoration by Harold Donaldson Eberlein,Abbot McClure,Edward Stratton Holloway Pdf

Author : Victor J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317272076

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Creating the Practical Man of Modernity by Victor J. Rodriguez Pdf

Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey’s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico, this book reconsiders the interpretation and application of Dewey’s ideas in the world. Rodriguez examines the use of Dewey in Mexico’s state-building projects as a vantage point to assess the global impact of Dewey’s pedagogy. As these projects converged with Dewey’s desire to employ education as a tool for effective social change, Rodriguez understands Dewey not just as a philosopher but as an integral part of the Americas’ progressive movement and era.

Author : Emmanuel M. Katongole
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532631795

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African Theology Today by Emmanuel M. Katongole Pdf

This book brings together twelve essays on a wide and rich range of topics, discussions and methodologies in African theology today. Even the book's limitations provide an insight into the situation: its variety also indicates the absence of comprehensive and sustained discussion flowing from the economic and institutional limitation of Africa where research in theology is often beyond the means of many theologians. Then there is the difficulty of staying abreast of continually changing contexts and events in Africa itself. For all of these reasons then, a compelling introduction to a dynamic analysis and conversation.

Author : Christian Hugo Hoffmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658200329

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Assessing Risk Assessment by Christian Hugo Hoffmann Pdf

Christian Hugo Hoffmann undermines the citadel of risk assessment and management, arguing that classical probability theory is not an adequate foundation for modeling systemic and extreme risk in complex financial systems. He proposes a new class of models which focus on the knowledge dimension by precisely describing market participants’ own positions and their propensity to react to outside changes. The author closes his thesis by a synthetical reflection on methods and elaborates on the meaning of decision-making competency in a risk management context in banking. By choosing this poly-dimensional approach, the purpose of his work is to explore shortcomings of risk management approaches of financial institutions and to point out how they might be overcome.

Author : Harold Donaldson Eberlein,Roger Wearne Ramsdell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Furniture
ISBN : UOM:39015031700340

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The Practical Book of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Furniture by Harold Donaldson Eberlein,Roger Wearne Ramsdell Pdf

Author : C. Matlack Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433066288444

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The Practical Book of Architecture by C. Matlack Price Pdf

Author : John F. Bauman,Edward K. Muller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973058

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Before Renaissance by John F. Bauman,Edward K. Muller Pdf

Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh. Planning emerged from the concerns of progressive reformers and businessmen over the social and physical problems of the city. In the Steel City enlightened planners such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built environment, and chronic political fragmentation, they established a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh. Over the years a mélange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in the planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow, political bosses Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh’s Frederick Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King Mellon and Mayor David Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to Pittsburgh’s prior planning experience. John Bauman and Edward Muller recount the city’s long tradition of public/private partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and stable urban growth. Before Renaissance provides insights into the major themes, benchmarks, successes, and limitations that marked the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh’s key role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the individuals and processes that impacted the physical shape and form of a city for generations to come.

Author : Philip Steadman
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787359154

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Renaissance Fun by Philip Steadman Pdf

Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.