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Critical Tales
Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance. As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions...
Errors of the Brinsmead Teachings
"Early in 1961 the officers of the General Conference appointed Raymond F. Cottrell to examine the teachings of Robert D. Brinsmead. Later, a special committee was appointed to grant John and Robert Brinsmead a hearing in March, 1961. The members were Elders Lowe (chairman), Cottrell, Neufeld, Olsen, and Roenfelt. This committee of brethren labored with the Brinsmead brothers to point out why their teachings were unacceptable, basing their objections upon the documented report by R.F. Cottrell. Following the hearing, Elder W.R. Beach drafted a letter to the Brinsmead brothers setting forth the findings of the special committee. This letter is almost a word for word reproduction of R.F. Cottrell's original report, with the added endorsement of the officers of the General Conference."--from the Preface, the Publishers.
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France
Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources, that friendships between men and women were impossible. Together, the essays in Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. The revival of Plato’s friendship texts in the sixteenth century challenged Aristotle’s rigid ideal of perfect fr...
The Culture of the Body
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs. The study ranges from Baroque, pre-Cartesian interpretations of body and embodiment, to the Cartesian elaboration of ontological difference and mind-body dualism, and it concludes with the parodic and violent aftermath of this legacy to the French Enlightenment. It engages work by philosophical authors such as Montaigne, Descartes and La M...
Rene Girard and Myth
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
