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Women's Lives
Women’s Lives presents essays on the ways in which the lives and voices of women permeated medieval literature and culture. The ubiquity of women amongst the medieval canon provides an opportunity for considering a different sphere of medieval culture and power that is frequently not given the attention it requires. The reception and use of female figures from this period has proven influential as subjects in literary, political, and social writings; the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression, and their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them. The volume includes essays on well-known medieval women, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Cartagena, as well as women less-known to scholars of the European Middle Ages, such as Al-Kāhina and Liang Hongyu. Each essay is directly related to the work of Elizabeth Petroff, a scholar of Medieval Women Mystics who helped recover texts written by medieval women.
The Voice of Silence
The result of a joint project by medievalists at the U. of Chile in Santiago and the universities of Ghent and Antwerp in the Netherlands, the essays of this volume consider medieval women's literacy with a focus on the impact of gender. Five essays consider aspects of Hildegard of Bingen's writings, particularly in her Symphonia. Other topics include the uses of literacy in medieval Beguine communities, women's literacy in 13th-century Latin Agogic texts, Johannes Tauler's writings on Bingen's Scivias, and Jan van Ruusbroec's perception of religious women. Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. The volume is not indexed. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Music in Print and Beyond
Fresh and innovative takes on the dissemination of music in manuscript, print, and, now, electronic formats, revealing how the world has experienced music from the sixteenth century to the present. This collection of essays examines the diverse ways in which music and ideas about music have been disseminated in print and other media from the sixteenth century onward. Contributors look afresh at unfamiliar facets of the sixteenth-century book trade and the circulation of manuscript and printed music in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They also analyze and critique new media forms, showing how a dizzying array of changing technologies has influenced what we hear, whom we hear, and how...
Belief or Unbelief
There are two tragedies in life: to live life believing God exists, and finding this to be an illusion, and to live life believing God does not exist, but finding that God does exist. Nonbelievers readily concede that belief in God is the more hopeful cosmovision, but the issue is if, in fact, this belief corresponds to reality. But can anything new be said on the issue of God’s existence? Rather than arguing deductively, as is typical in philosophy, Belief or Unbelief innovates by following an inductive approach, as is typical in science, where it infers the existence of God as more reasonable in the light of philosophic considerations and the findings of modern science. Inferential arguments sacrifice rigor and definitive conclusions, but rather aim at arriving at the likelier conclusion. Belief or Unbelief concludes that belief in God is not only a more hopeful cosmovision than unbelief, but that it is also the more reasonable inference. It is addressed to intellectually curious and open-minded lay persons, believers and nonbelievers, courageous enough to reexamine their basic convictions.
Current Debates in Philosophy of Science
This volume collects previously unpublished contributions to the philosophy of science. What brings them together is a twofold goal: first and foremost, celebrating the name of Roberto Torretti, whose works in this and other areas have had –and continue to have– a significant impact on the international philosophy of science community; and second, the desire of advancing novel perspectives on various issues in the philosophy of science broadly construed. Roberto Torretti has made substantial contributions to current debates in the history and philosophy of science, the general philosophy of science, and the philosophy of physics and geometry. Among his landmark contributions, we find his investigations in the history and philosophy of geometry, as well as his systematic studies of Einstein's relativity theory. This volume convenes leading philosophers and early-career scholars compiling a fine collection of chapters addressing recent debates on Kantian philosophy of science, the general philosophy of science, and the history and philosophy of physics and mathematics.
Spinoza
El pensador que mejor supo unir racionalidad y alegría ética - Tratado teológico político - Tratado político. Sostuvo que el sabio es alegre por definición y se opone siempre a la tristeza, y que sin alegría el pensamiento es menos productivo y creador. Tan lejos del optimismo ingenuo como del pesimismo moral e ideológico, su objetivo fue comprender en vez de juzgar. Serenidad, cautela y honestidad fueron los valores que sustentaron la vida y la obra de Spinoza, con una coherencia poco frecuente en el mundo intelectual.
Acerca de la Luz o del comienzo de las formas
Robert Grossteste (1175-1253), obispo de Lincoln y probablemente el primer canciller de la Universidad de Oxford, donde introdujo el pensamiento de Aristóteles y la idea griega de la Explicatio en el método científico. Impulsó el estudio de las matemáticas gracias a su conocimiento de autores árabes. Fue uno de los mayores eruditos de su tiempo, se conocen trabajos suyos de teología, matemáticas, física, óptica, geometría, etc. Grosseteste considera la luz como la primera materia creada por Dios y a partir de la cual se constituye el universo. La luz, generada en un punto, se expande en todas las direcciones y en todas las dimensiones, hasta que ya no puede hacerlo más, pues la materia es finita; desde ahí, firmamentum, la luz se refleja hacia su origen evidenciando a su paso las distintas esferas que conforman el universo (sphera mundi). Acerca de la Luz o del comienzo de las formas, es presentado por primera vez en español, en una edición bilingüe y anotada, y pretende ser un acercamiento a una de las mentes más singulares del pensamiento de la Edad Media.
Mother of God
One of the foremost medieval historians investigates the ideas, practices, and images that have developed around the figure of Mary from the earliest decades of Christianity to around the year 1600.
