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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.
Volume III of The Oxford History of Historical Writing contains essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally during the early modern era, from 1400 to 1800. The volume proceeds in geographic order from east to west, beginning in Asia and ending in the Americas. It aims at once to provide a selective but authoritative survey of the field and, where opportunity allows, to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is the third of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.
Surveying the development of medieval scholarship through biography, this volume contains 23 original essays on scholars whose work shaped medieval historiography for the past 300 years. Their subject was Europe between 500 and 1500, and they labored to define that protean and multinational culture. Each of them pioneered or revolutionized traditional views on fields such as diplomatics (Mabillon); economic, social, and constitutional history (Power, Pirenne, Bloch, Stubbs, Waitz, Whitelock, Maitland); manuscript and archival studies (Delisle, Muratori); Jewish history and the history of Islam and Byzantium (von Grunebaum, Ostrogorsky); symbology and intellectual history (Kantorowicz, Schramm, Smalley); general and cultural history (Gibbon, Adams, Haskins, S nchez-Albornoz); and ecclesiastical history (Bolland, Lea) and the history of magic and science (Thorndike). Some of the scholars pioneered comparative and interdisciplinary studies; all published work that is still essential to our understanding of the past and, more important, the present.
This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Through analysis of a range of discourses, it focuses on the roles played by intellectuals in formulating, communicating, and contesting ideas about work and its ethical value. The book moves away from the idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social, intellectual, religious, economic, political, and ideological objectives. Rather than a singular work ethic that left a decisive mark on the development of Western culture and economy, the volume stresses plurality. The essays draw on approaches from intellectual, social, and cultural history. They explore how, why, and in what contexts labour became an important and openly promoted value; who promoted or opposed hard work and for what reasons; and whether there was an early modern break with ancient and medieval discourses on work. These historicized visions of work ethics help enrich our understanding of present-day changing attitudes to work.
A Relation of the Missions of Paraguay is a historical text that describes the Jesuit missions in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries. Written by Lodovico Antonio Muratori in Italian and later translated into French by Félix Esprit Lourmel, this English edition translated from the French provides insight into the methods employed by the Jesuits to convert the indigenous population and establish a successful economy in the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Mit diesem Handbuch liegt erstmals ein umfassendes Namen- und Begriffslexikon der frühneuzeitlichen Gelehrtenkultur vor. Es besteht aus einem Bio-Bibliographischen Repertorium (Bd. I) zu den wichtigsten Autoren zwischen dem 15. und 18. Jahrhundert (von Thomas Abbt bis Zwingli) und einem (noch in Vorbereitung befindlichen) Glossar (Bd. II), mit konzisen Artikeln zu Zentralbegriffen der Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit, z. B. ars conversandi, disputatio, theologia naturalis, Zwinglianismus usw. Unter Gelehrtenkultur wird der Lebens- und Gesellschaftsbereich verstanden, in denen der Gelehrte eine bedeutende Rolle spielt bzw. der für ihn von Bedeutung ist. Im Vordergrund der Dokumentation stehen sowohl Kategorien, Termini und Bezeichnungen der mentalen und theoretischen als auch der sozialen und materiellen Kultur. Die Sachbereiche umfassen sowohl Lehre und Wissenschaft (Schulen, Fakultäten der Universität, Kirche, Jurisprudenz, Medizin usw.) als auch die Alltagskultur (Hof und Stadt, Haus und Garten, Freunde und Familie, Reisen, Schreiben und Lesen usw.).