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Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Johannes Sinapius (1505-1560)

Cette biographie retrace la vie et l'oeuvre de Johannes Sinapius, helléniste en Allemagne, devenu médecin en Italie, ami intime d'Erasme, de Melanchton, de Bucer, de Camerarius, de Calvin et de nombreux autres personnages importants. En appendice, on trouve le texte intégral de sa correspondance, ainsi que celui de sa production littéraire.

A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany

This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the history of princely courts, state building, and the civilizing process. Rather than try to fit historical...

The Power and the Glorification
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

The Power and the Glorification

  • Categories: Art

Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in Rome, extensive decorative cycles were commissioned to represent the strength of the church and historical justifications for its supreme authority. Replicating the contemporary viewer’s experience is central to De Jong’s approach, and he encourages readers to consider the works through fifteenth- and sixteenth-century eyes. De Jong argues that most visitors would only have had a limited knowledge of the historical events represented in these works, and they would likely have accepted (or been intended to accept) what they saw at face value. With that end in mind, the painters’ advisors did their best to “manipulate” the viewer accordingly, and De Jong discusses their strategies and methods.

The Pollaiuolo Brothers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 596

The Pollaiuolo Brothers

  • Categories: Art

Painters, draftsmen, goldsmiths, sculptors, and designers, the Pollaiuolo brothers of fifteenth-century Florence produced some of the most beautiful works of the Italian Renaissance.

Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 519

Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture

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Law, Resistance, and the State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Law, Resistance, and the State

Gerald Strauss offers a comprehensive study of a phenomenon of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe: the widespread opposition to Roman law and lawyers in sixteenth-century Germany. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 782

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-12-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The first full modern English version of Del Río’s treatise, unrivalled in its breadth, detail, and scholarship, on the occult sciences as they were understood, experienced, and combatted at the end of the sixteenth century.

Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 729

Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618

  • Categories: Art

This illustrated study of Renaissance Nuremberg explores the city’s social and artistic history through the sixteenth century and beyond. The German city of Nuremberg reached the height of its artistic brilliance during the Renaissance, becoming one of the foremost cultural centers in all of Europe by 1500. Nuremberg was the home of painter Albrecht Dürer, whose creative genius inspired generations of German artists. However, Dürer was only one of a host of extraordinary painters, printmakers, sculptors, and goldsmiths working in the city. Following a map of the city’s principal landmarks, Guy Fitch Lytle provides a compact historical background for Jeffrey Chipps Smith's detailed disc...

Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-28
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

A History of Law in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 823

A History of Law in Europe

The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.