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Cognition And The Book
The printed book caused an explosion of knowledge and major changes in the perception of texts. In investigating how knowledge was presented to the early modern reader, this volume treats both book-historical issues and the intersections of layout with issues of genre, content and function.
The Emblem in Early Modern Europe
The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture. However, as this book demonstrates, understanding the precise and often multiple meaning, intention and message emblems conveyed can prove a remarkably slippery process. In this book, Peter Daly draws upon many years’ research to reflect upon the recent upsurge in scholarly interest in, and rediscovery of, emblems fol...
The Scandal of the Scandals
Mahatma Gandhi once chided a Christian friend, "All you Christians, missionaries and all, must begin to live more like Jesus Christ." And what Christian among us would disagree with him? After the holy wars and witch-hunts, after persecutions and political machinations, there is a broad sense today that the Church, however well-meaning, is on the wrong side of history. But do we really know our history? In this collaboration with historian Arnold Angenendt, best-selling German author Manfred Lütz dares to show us what contemporary historians actually say about Christianity's track record over the ages. This detailed overview begins with the ancient pagans, passing through Israel, the early Church martyrs, Constantine's Rome, the reign of Charlemagne, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Reformation, the Borgia popes, the Galileo affair, the conquistadores, the French Revolution, the slave trade, the Holocaust, the sex abuse crisis, and more. The Scandal of the Scandals separates myth from fact, giving us a candid portrait of Christendom with its scars and all. Prepare to be amazed at how little you really knew about Christianity.
The Making of Copernicus
The contributions to Making of Copernicus examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground or have vanished again. Are there links between a factual or postulated transformation of world images and the application of certain scientific metaphors, especially the metaphor of a revolution? Were there interactions and amalgamations of the literary and scientific enthronement, or outlawry of Copernicus and if so, how did they take place? On the other hand, are there repercussions of the scientific-historical reconstructions and hagiographies on the literary image of Copernicus as sketched by novelists even in the 20th century? The history of the reception of Copernicus shall not be dominantly dealt with from the point of view of a factual affirmation and rejection of the astronomer and his doctrine but rather as accomplishments of transformation respectively. Thus, the essays in this volume investigate transformations: methodological, institutional, textual, and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.
Die Konstruktion Amerikas
Am Beispiel der Kupferstecher- und Verlegerfamilie de Bry wird in diesem Band zunächst die gesellschaftliche Position der niederländischen Emigranten im Frankfurt des 16. Jahrhunderts untersucht. Der zweite Teil befaßt sich mit der Konstruktion Amerikas in der Serienedition der Grands Voyages (1590- 1634) aus der Werkstatt de Bry. Die Kupferstecher fertigten neue Illustrationen zu den vorwiegend protestantischen, älteren Reiseberichten an. Durch eine neuartige Kombination tradierter Bildmotive wurden die fremden Menschen in der Neuen Welt dargestellt. Die Bild(er)findungen waren derart erfolgreich, dass sie bis heute in Ausstellungen, Schulbüchern und Zeitungen reproduziert werden. Ihren Beitrag zu den europäischen Vor- Urteilen gegenüber den Fremden in Amerika erforscht diese Studie. Unter Berücksichtigung kulturanthropologischer, literaturwissenschaftlicher, historischer und kunsthistorischer Forschungen betrachtet sie die Grands Voyages als Teil der europäischen Identitätsfindung im Kontext der religiösen Konflikte des 16. Jahrhunderts und deren Auswirkungen auf die Eroberung und Kolonisation des amerikanischen Kontinents.
Travel Fact and Travel Fiction
Travel Fact and Travel Fiction contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.
