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Shaping the Bible in the Reformation
This volume presents significant new research on several key aspects of the late mediaeval and early modern Bible. The essays in this collection deal with Bible scholarship and translation, illustration and production, Bible uses for lay devotion, and the role of Bibles in theological controversy. Inquiring into the ways in which scholars gave new forms to their Bibles and how their readers received their work, this book considers the contribution of key figures such as Castellio, Bibliander, Tremellius, Piscator and Calov. In addition, it examines the exegetical controversies between several centres of Reformed learning as well as among the theologians of Louvain. It encompasses biblical illustration in the Low Countries and the use of maps in the Geneva Bible, and considers the practice of Bible translation, and the strategies by which new versions were justified.
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and a...
Die Prager Universität im Mittelalter
The present collection, divided into three thematic sections, includes twenty-one studies on the history of the University of Prague from its foundation in 1348 to the 16th century. The first section is devoted to the birth of the university, its first institutions, the growth of the earliest colleges and the victory of the Reformist party. The second part concentrates on the curriculum, examinations, graduations and annual disputations of the Faculty of Liberal Arts. Section three deals with university polemics about universalia realia, mainly in relation to the scholarly and literary activity of Jerome of Prague (+ 1416).
Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus
This handbook offers a new reading of the humanist-scholastic debate over biblical humanism, lending a voice to scholastic critics who have been unfairly neglected in the historical narrative. The investigations cover controversies beginning in quattrocento Italy and spreading north of the Alps in the 16th century.
The Astronomical Clock of Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral’s astronomical clock is one of the most famous monuments to Time in the world. No other clock has been described and appreciated so often and in such a myriad of ways. There were three clocks built consecutively within the cathedral: the earlier fourteenth century clock has left little trace; a second clock was realized in 1570-1574; while the nineteenth century clock began as a proposal for repairs, but was intended by its maker as a replacement clock. This book gives a detailed outline of the artistic and technical components of the second clock, much of which survives, and it describes the astronomical indications and its underlying conceptual framework. The author ...
Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519-1573)
Johannes Goropius Becanus was een kleurrijke verschijning. Als geneesheer had hij zo’n goede naam, dat de Spaanse koning Filips II hem vroeg om hofarts te worden. Maar hij was meer geïnteresseerd in taal. Hij vestigde zich in Antwerpen en speelde een sleutelrol bij de oprichting van Christoffel Plantijns drukkerij. Daar verscheen in 1569 de geruchtmakende "Origines Antwerpianae" waaraan Goropius zijn bekendheid dankt. In deze geschiedenis van Antwerpen leverde hij namelijk het bewijs, dat Adam en Eva Antwerps spraken. Deze biografie laat zien, dat de in onze ogen bizarre speculaties van Goropius berustten op een indrukwekkende kennis van talen en disciplines. Hoewel hij door collega-geleerden scherp werd bekritiseerd, bleken sommige van zijn ideeën binnen de zestiende-eeuwse context wel vruchtbaar. Door gangbare mythes door te prikken, heeft Goropius de ontwikkeling van de filologie, historiografie en taalkunde op eigenzinnige wijze gevoed en gestimuleerd.
De Paus uit de Lage Landen
Adrianus VI (ook wel Adriaan VI, Latijn: Hadrianus VI, geboren als Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens; Utrecht, 2 maart 1459 - Rome, 14 september 1523), was paus van 31 augustus 1522 tot zijn dood. Hij was de laatste niet-Italiaanse paus tot Johannes Paulus II in 1978. In Nederland wordt hij vanwege zijn geboorteplaats Utrecht beschouwd als de enige Nederlandse paus in de geschiedenis. In Duitsland geldt hij als zevende Duitse paus omdat Utrecht destijds tot het Heilige Roomse Rijk behoorde.
