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Apocryphal Apocalypse - The Reception Of The Second Book Of Esdras (4 Ezra) From The Renaissance To The Enlightenment

by Alastair Hamilton

~~230,54€~~ 184,43€ 20% OFF

 This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Professor Hamilton discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation. The Book owed its initial success to Hebraists such as Pico della Mirandola and Bibliander. It was used to account for the origins of Jewish Kabbalah and to prophesy political and religious events: the fall of the Ottoman empire, or the destruction of the papacy. Anabaptists, dissident Protestants of various persuasions, Rosicrucians and Paracelsians consulted it not only as a work of prophecy but, it is argued, as an emblem of dissent, rejected by the official Churches. At the same time more sober scholars, both Protestants and Catholics, scrutinized 2 Esdras with greater objectivity, endeavouring to date it correctly and establish its authorship. This study also investigates the interaction between their views and those of the Book's enthusiastic supporters.
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Franaois Rabelais And The Renaissance Physiology Of Invention - Ingenious Animation

by Raphaa«Le Garrod

~~91,41€~~ 73,13€ 20% OFF

 FranAois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in Rabelaisian scholarship between Rabelais's 'lowly' laughter and his 'high', erudite message and reassesses the Rabelaisian grotesque by highlighting its debts to grotesque ornament, this marginal yet omnipresent Renaissance visual art. Bodily functions are a trademark of Rabelais's poetics. Scholarship has read them as signs of carnivalesque inversion, in line with the Bakhtinian grotesque, or of satirical degradation: in both instances, the 'lowly' is opposed to the 'high', the belly to the head. Yet for a physician like Rabelais, the 'head' or the brain as the site of cognition is not opposed to what is below it: the chest as the site of breathing, the belly and its nether regions as sites of nutrition and generation. In Renaissance medicine, these are integrated physiological systems whose products fuel each other's operations, including cognition. Read through this lens and alongside his diagnosis of the healthy or diseased culture of his time (rotting scholasticism, the humanist digestion of the classical heritage, or the schismatic convulsions shaking Christianity) Rabelais's fictions testify to his reflexive investigation into how culture results from physiological processes fuelling the inventive ability of the human animal, made manifest in pedagogical, artistic, mechanical, and spiritual 'inventions'. They display the life (rather than the truth) of culture stemming from human ingenia, that is, wits conditioned by biological natures. While these might be idiosyncratic, their animation is fuelled and shaped by the food one eats, the air one breathes, the places one inhabits, the company one keeps. In this respect Rabelaisian fiction is grotesque in a period sense. With its emphasis on hybrid forms capturing the metamorphic powers of animation, grotesque ornament reflexively commented on the embodied inventive processes underpinning Renaissance mimesis. Rabelais's fictions display a similar logic: they foreground the inventive powers of ingenious animation and articulate reflexive, often ironic alternatives to the humanist views they alter: a thoroughly embodied anthropology, a naturalist genealogy of cultural production and transmission, a phantastical account of artistic invention as uncanny liveliness.
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Francois Rabelais And The Renaissance Physiology Of Invention - Ingenious Animation

by Raphaele Garrod

~~91,41€~~ 73,13€ 20% OFF

 Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais' Gargantua and, mostly,in his Quart livre. It unsettles established dichotomies in Rabelaisian scholarship between Rabelais's 'lowly' laughter and his 'high', erudite message and reassesses the Rabelaisian grotesque by highlighting its debts to grotesque ornament, this marginal yet omnipresent Renaissance visual art. Bodily functions are a trademark of Rabelais's poetics. Scholarship has read them as signs of carnivalesque inversion, in line with the Bakhtinian grotesque, or of satirical degradation: in both instances, the 'lowly' is opposed to the 'high', the belly to the head. Yet for a physician like Rabelais, the 'head' or the brain as the site of cognition is not opposed to what is below it: the chest as the site of breathing, the belly and its nether regions as sites of nutrition and generation. In Renaissance medicine, these are integrated physiological systems whose products fuel each other's operations, including cognition. Read through this lens and alongside his diagnosis of the healthy or diseased culture of his time (rotting scholasticism, the humanist digestion of the classical heritage, or the schismatic convulsions shaking Christianity) Rabelais's fictions testify to his reflexive investigation into how culture results from physiological processes fuelling the inventive ability of the human animal, made manifest in pedagogical, artistic, mechanical, and spiritual 'inventions'. They display the life (rather than the truth) of culture stemming from human ingenia, that is, wits conditioned by biological natures. While these might be idiosyncratic, their animation is fuelled and shaped by the food one eats, the air one breathes, the places one inhabits, the company one keeps. In this respect Rabelaisian fiction is grotesque in a period sense. With its emphasis on hybrid forms capturing the metamorphic powers of animation, grotesque ornament reflexively commented on the embodied inventive processes underpinning Renaissance mimesis. Rabelais's fictions display a similar logic: they foreground the inventive powers of ingenious animation and articulate reflexive, often ironic alternatives to the humanist views they alter: a thoroughly embodied anthropology, a naturalist genealogy of cultural production and transmission, a phantastical account of artistic invention as uncanny liveliness.
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Francois Rabelais And The Renaissance Physiology Of Invention - Ingenious Animation

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 FranÃ§ois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention: Ingenious Animation explores the medical poetics of inventive, embodied thinking or ingenuity instantiated in Rabelais's Gargantua and, mostly, his Quart livre.
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Historical Truth In Fifteenth-Century Italy - Verisimilitude And Factuality In The Humanist Debate

by Giuliano Mori

~~75,51€~~ 60,41€ 20% OFF

 Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.
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Historical Truth In Fifteenth-Century Italy - Verisimilitude And Factuality In The Humanist Debate

by Giuliano Mori

~~75,51€~~ 60,41€ 20% OFF

 Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.
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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

by Martin Korenjak

~~119,24€~~ 95,39€ 20% OFF

 During the early modern period, the emergence of modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse. However, the Latin literature in which most new insights were presented at that time has never been studied as a whole and in its own right. This book provides the first overview of this vast body of texts.
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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

by Martin Korenjak

~~119,24€~~ 95,39€ 20% OFF

 During the early modern period, the emergence of modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse. However, the Latin literature in which most new insights were presented at that time has never been studied as a whole and in its own right. This book provides the first overview of this vast body of texts.
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Historical Truth In Fifteenth-Century Italy - Verisimilitude And Factuality In The Humanist Debate

by Giuliano (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University Of Milan) Mori

~~113,56€~~ 90,85€ 20% OFF

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 Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.
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Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

~~179,13€~~ 143,30€ 20% OFF

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 During the early modern period, the emergence of modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse. However, the Latin literature in which most new insights were presented at that time has never been studied as a whole and in its own right. This book provides the first overview of this vast body of texts.
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Mishnaic Moment - Jewish Law Among Jews And Christians In Early Modern Europe

~~92,74€~~ 74,19€ 20% OFF

 The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.
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Mishnaic Moment - Jewish Law Among Jews And Christians In Early Modern Europe

~~92,74€~~ 74,19€ 20% OFF

 The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.
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European Physico-Theology (1650-C.1760) In Context - Celebrating Nature And Creation

by Kaspar Von Greyerz

~~92,74€~~ 74,19€ 20% OFF

 Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is the first English-language monograph to study the impact of physico-theology on the intellectual and socio-cultural establishment in Europe from the mid-17th century.
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European Physico-Theology (1650-C.1760) In Context - Celebrating Nature And Creation

by Kaspar Von Greyerz

~~92,74€~~ 74,19€ 20% OFF

 Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is the first English-language monograph to study the impact of physico-theology on the intellectual and socio-cultural establishment in Europe from the mid-17th century.
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The Mishnaic Moment - Jewish Law Among Jews And Christians In Early Modern Europe

~~152,09€~~ 121,67€ 20% OFF

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 The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.
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Reformation Of Common Learning - Post-Ramist Method And The Reception Of The New Philosophy, 1618 - 1670

by Howard Hotson

~~109,96€~~ 87,97€ 20% OFF

 This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.
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Making Mathematical Culture - University And Print In The Circle Of Lefèvre D''Étaples

by Richard J. Oosterhoff

~~79,49€~~ 63,59€ 20% OFF

 Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the fastest-growing institutions of the early modern period, the university.
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Making Mathematical Culture - University And Print In The Circle Of Lefèvre D''Étaples

by Richard J. Oosterhoff

~~79,49€~~ 63,59€ 20% OFF

 Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the fastest-growing institutions of the early modern period, the university.
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Reformation Of Common Learning - Post-Ramist Method And The Reception Of The New Philosophy, 1618 - 1670

by Howard Hotson

~~109,96€~~ 87,97€ 20% OFF

 This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.
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Invention Of Papal History - Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance And Catholic Reform

by Stefan Bauer

~~86,11€~~ 68,89€ 20% OFF

 The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-breaking investigations into the Church's history from Christ to the Renaissance. This study shows how his writings impacted on church and society, but also how he changed historical writing.
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Invention Of Papal History - Onofrio Panvinio Between Renaissance And Catholic Reform

by Stefan Bauer

~~86,11€~~ 68,89€ 20% OFF

 The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-breaking investigations into the Church's history from Christ to the Renaissance. This study shows how his writings impacted on church and society, but also how he changed historical writing.
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The Reformation Of Common Learning - Post-Ramist Method And The Reception Of The New Philosophy, 1618 - 1670

~~172,37€~~ 137,90€ 20% OFF

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 This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.
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Making Mathematical Culture - University And Print In The Circle Of Lefevre D'Etaples

~~135,19€~~ 108,15€ 20% OFF

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 Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the fastest-growing institutions of the early modern period, the university.
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Criticism And Confession - The Bible In The Seventeenth Century Republic Of Letters

by Nicholas Hardy

~~99,36€~~ 79,49€ 20% OFF

 A study of the ways in which the text and meaning of the Bible were debated by scholars and theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in seventeenth-century Europe, considering the technical problems faced by scholars studying and editing the text in its original languages, and the religious and political pressures affecting the ways they worked.
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