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Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the multi- and interdisciplinary approach, with papers on a broad range of historical times, places, and subjects. While each essay makes a valuable and original contribution to its relevant field(s), the collection as a whole is an attempt to probe more general questions and issues concerning the productive outcomes of cultural encounters throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The collection is divided into three sections organised thematically and chronologically. The first, ‘Encounters with the Past,’ focuses on the r...
Art Patronage and Conflicting Memories in Early Modern Iberia
This volume investigates the mechanisms (artworks, treatises, and other forms of cultural patronage) that the Marquises of Villena and their opponents used to operate in the cultural battlefield of the time with the aim of understanding how their conflicting historical memories were constructed and manipulated. Concentrating on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the book examines these two aristocrats and demonstrates that political tensions led not only to military conflicts during this period but also to conflicts fought on cultural grounds, through the promotion of artistic, religious, and literary programmes. Maria Teresa Chicote Pompanin investigates why the Marquises of Villena lost in both the military and cultural battlefields and explains how the negative historical memories forged by their opponents in the late fifteenth century managed to become the official historical truth that has remained unchallenged to this day. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural history, medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Iberian studies, literary studies, and patronage studies.
Twilight of the Godlings
A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain's small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings.
Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance
In Debating the Stars, Ovanes Akopyan sheds new light on the astrological controversies that arose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries after the publication of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496). This treatise has often been held responsible for a contemporary reassessment of the status of astrology, a discipline that attracted widespread fascination in the Renaissance. Akopyan’s reconstruction of the development of Pico’s views demonstrates that the Disputationes was a continuation of rather than a drastic rupture with the rest of his legacy. By investigating the philosophical and humanist foundations for Pico’s attack on astrological predictions, Akopyan challenges the popular assumption that the treatise was written under Girolamo Savonarola’s spell. He shows instead how it was appropriated ideologically by pro-Savonarolan circles after Pico’s death. This book also offers a comprehensive study of the immediate reception of the Disputationes across Italy and Europe and reveals that the debates initiated by Pico’s intervention pervaded all of the European intellectual oikumene.
Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period
This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation, through the Renaissance and on to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, this was a time when religious scholarship was updated with the discoveries of the New World and colonial expansion. These chapters present new work, shedding light on the interplay of philosophy and theology in key thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Bayle and Spinoza, but also in less known authors such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Sebastian Castellio. Readers will discover ...
Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650
If the universe were conceived to fulfill a certain divine plan or to manifest God’s will and glory, what would the place of an individual be within this plan? What is more, if, from the very beginning of its existence and through divine providence, it were predestined to be driven toward a certain end, how could people adjust their individual lives to the incognizable universal design and react to the obscure future fraught with both luck and failure? These questions, which have occupied humanity for centuries, formed a remarkable element of early modern European thought. This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted reflections on fate and fortune between, roughly, 1400 and 1650, both in word and image. This volume argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed. Contributors: Damiano Acciarino, Ovanes Akopyan, Elisabeth Blum, Paul Richard Blum, Jo Coture, Guido Giglioni, Dalia Judovitz, Sophie Raux, Orlando Reade, and John Sellars.
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
Volume XVIII. Special Issue: Gian-Carlo Rota and The End of Objectivity, 2019
Il cabbalista aristotelico
Il volume ricostruisce la biografia intellettuale di Paolo Ricci (ca. 1480–1541/42), filosofo e traduttore ebreo converso, in dialogo con Erasmo da Rotterdam e difensore di Reuchlin nella controversia di Colonia sui libri ebraici. Il libro dimostra che Ricci, prima del battesimo, fu seguace del movimento profetico-messianico dell’ebreo Asher Lemmlein, ricoprendovi un ruolo di primo piano come predicatore, e che le ragioni profonde della sua conversione al cristianesimo devono tenere conto di tale circostanza. Emerge così un capitolo poco esplorato della storia religiosa europea, da leggersi sotto la lente del profetismo ebraico, del suo peso sui fenomeni di conversione, e si aprono nuove prospettive sulla riscoperta latina di Averroè, sulle interpretazioni cristiane della qabbalah e sui nessi causali che legano l’affaire Reuchlin al progetto di traduzione latina del Talmud promosso da Massimiliano I.
Mythos, o del rapporto tra romanzo e verità
Che cos’è un romanzo? Che ruolo e che valore ha all’interno della nostra cultura? Durante il Novecento, di fronte all’avanzare dell’ideale del Progresso fatto di macchine e di scienza, esperimenti e tecnologie, Heidegger lamentava la perdita del Lebenswelt, il mondo della vita, dal panorama della conoscenza. Milan Kundera, al contrario, era convinto che fosse tutt’altro che perduto: “Tutti i grandi temi esistenziali [] sono stati svelati, mostrati, illuminati da quattro secoli di romanzo. Nel modo che gli è proprio, secondo la logica che gli è propria, il romanzo ha scoperto, uno dopo l’altro, i diversi aspetti dell’esistenza”. Se il romanzo ha attinto a quel campo dell...
Judici i justícia
"La personificació de la Justícia com una dama amb balances i espasa és només una de les imatges que en l?època medieval i moderna es va expressar a les pàgines dels llibres manuscrits, als grans brodats, a les taules i als cicles escultòrics o pictòrics de caràcter monumental. Tant si es tractava del judici de Déu com de la justícia impartida pels humans, l?art europeu vehiculà, a partir d?algunes iconografies constants i d?altres temàtiques singulars, un món legislatiu, escatològic i hagiogràfic d?enorme complexitat. Els autors de Judici i Justícia analitzen aquestes realitats interessant-se per l?art català i per les continuïtats i les particularitats del tema en divers...
