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A Day in a Medieval City
An opportunity to experience the daily hustle and bustle of life in the late Middle Ages, A Day in a Medieval City provides a captivating dawn-to-dark account of medieval life. A visual trek through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--with seasoned medieval historian Chiara Frugoni as guide--this book offers a vast array of images and vignettes that depict the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures of people living in the Middle Ages. A Day in a Medieval City breathes life into the activities of city streets, homes, fields, schools, and places of worship. With entertaining anecdotes and gritty details, it engages the modern reader with its discoveries of the religious, economic, a...
Travel and Translation in the Early Modern Period
The relationship between travel and translation might seem obvious at first, but to study it in earnest is to discover that it is at once intriguing and elusive. Of course, travelers translate in order to make sense of their new surroundings; sometimes they must translate in order to put food on the table. The relationship between these two human compulsions, however, goes much deeper than this. What gets translated, it seems, is not merely the written or the spoken word, but the very identity of the traveler. These seventeen essays--which treat not only such well-known figures as Martin Luther, Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Milton, but also such lesser known figures as Konrad Grünemberg, Leo Africanus, and Garcilaso de la Vega--constitute the first survey of how this relationship manifests itself in the early modern period. As such, it should be of interest both to scholars who are studying theories of translation and to those who are studying "hodoeporics", or travel and the literature of travel.
Loyal to the Republic, Pious to the Church
This volume deals with matters of public religious expression and aspects of interconfessionality in the case of the Greek Orthdox clergyman and scholar Gerasimos Vlachos (1607–1685) from Candia, Crete. The book proceeds to an interpretative approach to Gerasimos Vlachos' ideological, political and religious identity in all the phases of his life. As the principal factor of the work is promoted Vlachos' perception of his contemporary trans- and interconfessional tendencies and cross-cultural relations firstly within the 17th-century Venetian Republic and secondly in the wider European and Ottoman sphere. Dimitris Paradoulakis aims to interpret the scholar's attitude towards his contemporary theological controversies, the Venetian concept of socio-political tolerance and confessional conciliation, and Vlachos' personal perception on matters of multiconfessional coexistence and freedom of worship.
Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England
Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books - including but not limited to the Prince - strongly influenced the contemporary political debate. The first section discusses early reactions to Machiavelli's works, focusing on authors such as Reginald Pole and William Thomas, depicting their complex interaction with Machiavelli. In section two, different features of Machiavelli's reading in Tudor literary and political culture are discussed, moving well beyond the traditional image of the tyrant or of the evil Machiavel. Machiavelli's histo...
The Gallery of Memory
This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory -- created by an oral culture -- reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.
Poetes Italiens de La Renaissance Dans La Bibliotheque de La Fondation Barbier-Mueller. de Dante a Chiabrera
La Fondation Barbier-Mueller pour l'étude de la poésie italienne de la Renaissance, fondée en 1997 à l'Université de Genève, est riche d'une collection de livres anciens, principalement du XVIe siècle, qui compte de nombreux exemplaires remarquables et précieux ainsi qu'une belle série de recueils collectifs et d'anthologies. Le catalogue de cette bibliothèque recense et décrit avec précision 452 éditions rares de poètes italiens, de Dante à Chiabrera, des plus illustres aux plus confidentiels. Une attention toute particulière est réservée au contenu des volumes, au recensement des pièces liminaires, à l'identification des dédicataires et des auteurs secondaires comme aux particularités des exemplaires. Plus qu'un simple catalogue toutefois, par l'importante documentation qu'il offre, à travers des notices prosopographiques et bibliographiques détaillées, cet ouvrage a aussi l'ambition de tracer un panorama original de la poésie, de l'édition et des milieux littéraires italiens au moment de leur âge d'or. Des tables et des index détaillés en font un outil de travail de première importance.
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English Dictionaries, 800-1700
This study explores the topical, i.e. non-alphabetical, word-lists which appeared between the beginnings of written culture and 1700. A form of early dictionary, these lists provide evidence on cultural history and linguistic development.
