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L'intellettuale
Un uomo nato fra il Mille e il Millequattrocento avrebbe compreso i termini donna (mulier), cavaliere (miles), cittadino (urbanus), mercante (mercator), povero (pauper): non avrebbe inteso invece il significato della parola «intellettuale» (intellectualis) attribuita all'uomo. Per chi frequentava la scuola, l'uomo era piuttosto razionale (animal rationale e purtroppo mortale), ma questa era la definizione buona per tutto il genere umano, una definizione che discendeva da Aristotele. L'aggettivo «intellettuale» si accompagnava a sostantivi diversi, con qualche variante di significato. La «sostanza intellettuale» (opposta a «sostanza materiale») era lo spirito o l'anima, la «conoscenza intellettuale» (opposta alla «conoscenza sensibile») era quel tipo di conoscere che superava lo strumento dei sensi spingendosi a cogliere le forme. Gli aristotelici parlavano anche di «piacere intellettuale» (riservato agli eletti e ben distinto da quello «sensuale»), di «virtù intellettuale» (diversa da quella «morale») secondo l'antica analisi dell'Etica Nicomachea.Acquista l'ebook e continua a leggere!
Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Medieval Callings
These essays by eleven internationally renowned historians present nuanced profiles of the major social and professional groups—the callings-of the Middle Ages. The contributors focus on attitudes of medieval men and women toward their own society. Through a variety of techniques, from a reading of the Song of Roland to a reading of administrative records, they identify characteristic viewpoints of members of the fighting class, the clergy, and the peasantry. Along with vivid descriptions of what life was like for warrior knights, monks, high churchmen, criminals, lepers, shepherds, and prostitutes, this innovative approach offers a valuable new perspective on the complex social dynamics of feudal Europe. "Very useful discussions of texts, both learned and literary."—Christopher Dyer, Times Literary Supplement Contributors: Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Franco Cardini, Enrico Castelnuovo, Giovanni Cherubini, Bronislaw Geremek, Aron Ja. Gurevich, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Jacques Le Goff, Giovanni Miccoli, Jacques Rossiaud, and André Vauchez.
Medioevo al femminile
Egeria la pellegrina, Baudonivia la biografa, Dhuoda la madre, Rosvita la poetessa, Trotula il medico, Eloisa l'intellettuale, Ildegarda la profetessa, Caterina la mistica: otto ritratti biografici e letterari tanto più avvincenti in quanto rappresentativi ciascuno di un diverso itinerario umano e sociale. Mai come in questo volume è stato messo in luce così chiara il molteplice, enigmatico, affascinante volto della donna medievale.
Dante
"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The Times Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but romantic love and the human condition. However, while Dante's works are widely celebrated outside Italy, the circumstances of his extraordinary life are less well known. Born in 1265, Dante's adolescence was characterised by literary genius, but his political activism in one of the medieval world's wealthiest cities led to his death in exile. Pre-eminent Dante scholar Alessandro Barbero and celebrated translator Allan Cameron bring the poet vividly to life. Animating the political intrigue, violence, civil war, exile and cities that shaped Dante's poetic and political life, this is a remarkable portrait of one of the creators of European literature and a towering medieval figure in time for the 700th anniversary of his death.
Women Writers of the Middle Ages
This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets have hitherto remained unknown, or virtually inaccessible; some have never been edited or translated before. The emphasis throughout is on personal testimonies, and on texts that have notable literary or intellectual interest. Thus the book affords many new insights into medieval literature, not only into the writings of renowned women such as Hrotsvitha or Heloise, but also into those of a number of neglected writers who are exceptional in their gifts and individuality. Already highly influential, Women Writers of the Middle Ages continues to be essential reading for specialists and students alike in medieval literature, medieval intellectual history, and women's studies.
Between Utopia and Dystopia
Between Utopia and Dystopia offers a new interpretation of Erasmian humanism. It argues that Erasmian humanism created the identity of the universal and critical intellectual, but that this identity undermined the fundamental premises of humanist discourse. It closely reads several works of Erasmus and Thomas More, employing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of intellectual history, and adopting theoretical insights and methodological procedures from various disciplines.
Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De divina omnipotentia
Contemporary critics have argued that medieval philosophers have transmitted a concept of divine omnipotence that is unintelligible and self-contradictory: one which defines omnipotence as a power capable of producing any effect whatsoever. This study, concentrating upon the first Latin treatise explicitly devoted to omnipotence, places the concept of divine power in its patristic and early medieval context in order to demonstrate that this "traditional" concept of omnipotence was quite unknown among pre-scholastic figures. This work illuminates the patristic and early medieval background to Damian's seminal text and its theological and philosophical concerns. It explores Damian's central argument that God can, if He wills, even annul the past. This conclusion stems from Damian's insistence that divinity's primary attribute is Goodness and not Being. As such, God's power remains constrained only by divine goodness and is able to do anything whatsoever, even effect a logical contradiction, if it is good to do so.
Introduction to the Semiotics of the Text
This books aims to demonstrate how semiotic models of textual analysis can be used to study any social reality or cultural process. In addition, it shows how semiotic models work by using examples from everyday life and social praxis, communicative processes and modes of consumption, online interactions and cross-media procedures, political experiences and scientific universes.
