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Christian Humanism
It is a misconception that Christianity and Humanism are in any way in conflict with each other. The present book shows that through many centuries, and especially in the Renaissance, the two stood in a relation that was mutually complementary. The contributions in this volume treat aspects and manifestations of this cultural symbiosis, and they throw new light on authors and texts both more and less familiar. The subject-areas discussed include: religion, history, philosophy, literature and education. The age of Renaissance and Reformation is the central focus, but earlier and later periods are also featured. The contributions comprise a Festschrift for Professor Arjo Vanderjagt, whose work...
Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University
A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the same time, the universities of Europe became increasingly orientated towards serving the territorial state, guided by a humanistic approach to learning which stressed its social and political utility. It was in these contexts that the notion of the scholar as a distinct social category gained a foothold and the status of the scholarly group as a social elite was firmly established. University scholars demonstrated a great energy when characterizing themselves socially as learned men. This book investigates the significance and implications of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe in the early modern period. It describes a general and growing deliberation in the fashioning of individual, communal and categorical academic identity in this period. It explores the reasons for this growing self-consciousness among scholars, and the effects of its expression - social and political, desired and real.
Fictionalizing heterodoxy
The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.
Zwingli
A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli—the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the architect of the Reformation in Switzerland, he created the Reformed tradition later inherited by John Calvin. His movement ultimately became a global religion. A visionary of a new society, Zwingli was also a divisive and fiercely radical figure. Bruce Gordon presents a fresh interpretation of the early Reformation and the key role played by Zwingli. A charismatic preacher and politician, Zwingli transformed church and society in Zurich and inspired supporters throughout Europe. Yet, Gordon shows, he was seen as an agitator and heretic by many and his bellicose, unyielding efforts to realize his vision would prove his undoing. Unable to control the movement he had launched, Zwingli died on the battlefield fighting his Catholic opponents.
Perspectives on Igwebuike Philosophy:
The study of African philosophy, like all great philosophical enquiries around the world, is fraught with the wrecks of words, wrenched from their original meaning, widened or narrowed, and forced into a bewildering variety of vessels that chum their ways in seas of semantic confusion. African philosophical studies has acquired and added to the many philosophical verbal transmogrifications that came originally from the Igbo of south-eastern Nigeria. In its turn, it has produced its own eccentric philosophical etymology, of which, perhaps the most striking example is Igwebuike philosophy. A reflection on Igwebuike philosophy reveals that it is a product of a meticulous and critical study of A...
Buona pulcella fut Eulalia
Tous les médiévistes connaissent la Séquence Buona pulcella fut Eulalia, ils savent aussi que cette oeuvre majeure, la première du plus ancien français, est loin d'avoir livré tous ses secrets. Les auteurs ont donc décidé de revisiter ce poème, l'histoire de la sainte qui en est le sujet, la langue dans laquelle il est écrit, son environnement dans le manuscrit 150 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Valenciennes, qui l'a miraculeusement préservé, et dont ils dressent un inventaire précis. Leur étude minutieuse révèle un poète à la fois cultivé, délicat et efficace. Elle met en lumière une langue en formation qui, contrairement à ce qu'on croit, est, par bien des points, déjà du français. Par la même occasion, ils ont aussi édité et traduit les quatre autres textes latins et germanique entourant cette Séquence romane : Cantica uirginis Eulaliae, Dominus caeli rex, Uis fidei, Rithmus Teutonicus. On verra que tous méritaient cette revalorisation.
Brinkman's catalogus van boeken en tijdschriften
With 1901/1910-1956/1960 Repertoium is bound: Brinkman's Titel-catalohus van de gedurende 1901/1910-1956/1960 (Title varies slightly).
Lecturas del cuerpo. Fisiognomía y literatura en la España áurea
La fisiognomía es una disciplina que interpreta el aspecto exterior de los seres humanos (y a veces, de animales) para sacar conclusiones acerca de su carácter, disposición y destino. Los trabajos de investigación sobre la fisiognomía de la época medieval y áurea son relativamente escasos, seguramente también porque para analizar la textualización de determinadas prácticas fisiognómicas es indispensable rastrear qué tratados fisiognómicos circulaban entonces en España y estaban al alcance de autores y lectores. La obra de Folke Gernert, Lecturas del cuerpo, aborda por primera vez la importancia de la fisiognomía en el Renacimiento y el siglo XVII español; la variedad de aspec...
