The Book Of Nature And Humanity In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance

Author : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503549217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection were first delivered as presentations at the Sixteenth Annual ACMRS Conference on 'Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance' in February, 2010, at Arizona State University. They reflect the current state of the critical discussion regarding the 'history of the human'.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503549972
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by David Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Nature and Love in the Late Middle Ages written by Aldo D. Scaglione and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Chiefly an essay in the cultural context of the Decameron.'

Author : State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages written by State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Willard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503590448
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Thomas Willard and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environment--together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world--has become a major focus of pre-modern studies. The thirteen contributions in this volume discuss topics across the millennium in Europe from the late 600s to the early 1600s. They introduce applications to older texts, art works, and ideas made possible by relatively new fields of discourse such as animal studies, ecotheology, and Material Engagement Theory. From studies of medieval land charters and epics to the canticles sung in churches, the encyclopedic natural histories compiled for the learned, the hunting parks described and illustrated for the aristocracy, chronicles from the New World, classical paintings from the Old World, and the plays of Shakespeare, the authors engage with the human responses to nature in times when it touched their lives more intimately than it does for people today, even though this contact raised concerns that are still very much alive today.

Author : J. Eugene Clay
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503590639
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by J. Eugene Clay and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From shape-shifting Merlin to the homunculi of Paracelsus, the nine fascinating essays of this collection explore the contested boundaries between human and non-human animals, between the body and the spirit, and between the demonic and the divine. Drawing on recent work in animal studies, posthumanism, and transhumanism, these innovative articles show how contemporary debates about the nature and future of humanity have deep roots in the myths, literature, philosophy, and art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The authors of these essays demonstrate how classical stories of monsters and metamorphoses offered philosophers, artists, and poets a rich source for reflection on marriage, resurrection, and the passions of love. The ambiguous and shifting distinctions between human, animal, demon, and angel have long been contentious. Beasts can elevate humanity: for Renaissance courtiers, horsemanship defined nobility. But animals are also associated with the demonic, and medieval illuminators portrayed Satan with bestial features. Divided into three sections that examine metamorphoses, human-animal relations, and the demonic and monstrous, this volume raises intriguing questions about the ways humans have understood their kinship with animals, nature, and the supernatural.

Author : Allen G. Debus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521293280
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and Nature in the Renaissance written by Allen G. Debus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution.

Author : Margaret J. Osler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412489
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring the World written by Margaret J. Osler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World, Margaret J. Osler treats the development of the sciences in Europe from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries as a complex and multifaceted process.. The worldview embedded in modern science is a relatively recent development. Osler aims to convey a nuanced understanding of how the natural world looked to early modern thinkers such as Galileo, Descartes, Boyle, and Newton. She describes investigation and understanding of the natural world in terms that the thinkers themselves would have used. Tracing the views of the natural world to their biblical, Greek, and Arabic sources, Osler demonstrates the impact of the Renaissance recovery of ancient texts, printing, the Protestant Reformation, and the exploration of the New World. She shows how the traditional disciplinary boundaries established by Aristotle changed dramatically during this period and finds the tensions of science and religion expressed as differences between natural philosophy and theology. Far from a triumphalist account, Osler's story includes false starts and dead ends. Ultimately, she shows how a few gifted students of nature changed the way we see ourselves and the universe.

Author : Elizabeth Alice Honig
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141087
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature written by Elizabeth Alice Honig and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerless paintbrush to mankind’s labors and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life, portraying landscapes, peasant life, and biblical scenes in startling detail. Much like the great humanist scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bruegel questioned how well we really know ourselves and also how we know, or visually read, others. His work often represented mankind’s ignorance and insignificance, emphasizing the futility of ambition and the absurdity of pride. This superbly illustrated volume examines how Bruegel’s art and ideas enabled people to ponder what it meant to be human. Published to coincide with the four-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of Bruegel’s death, it will appeal to all those interested in art and philosophy, the Renaissance, and Flemish painting.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000205029
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World written by Albrecht Classen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von Aue, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Guillaume de Lorris to Petrarch and Heinrich Kaufringer, predicated their works on the notion of the trail and elaborated on its epistemological function. We can grasp here an essential concept that determines much of medieval and early modern European literature and philosophy, addressing the direction which all protagonists pursue, as powerfully illustrated also by the anonymous poets of Herzog Ernst and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Dante’s Divina Commedia, in fact, proves to be one of the most explicit poetic manifestations of the fundamental idea of the trail, but we find strong parallels also in powerful contemporary works such as Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de la vie humaine and in many mystical tracts.