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Author : Jerold C. Frakes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004085442
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fate of Fortune in the Early Middle Ages written by Jerold C. Frakes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frakes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004451730
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fate of Fortune in the Middle Ages written by Frakes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004459960
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650 written by Ovanes Akopyan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.
Author : Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108922333
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Fortune's Theater written by Nicholas Scott Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how merchants and gamblers, the futurologists of the pre-modern world, understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of others. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study demonstrates that while the Renaissance did not create the modern sense of time, it constructed the foundations on which it could develop. The new conceptions of the past and the future that developed in the Renaissance provided the pattern for the later construction a single narrative beginning in classical antiquity stretching to the now. This book thus makes an important contribution toward laying bare the historical contingency of a sense of time that continues to structure our world in profound ways.
Author : Chumaru Koyama
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453172
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature in Medieval Thought written by Chumaru Koyama and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the medieval concept of nature under various aspects ( such as natural law and the foundation of ethics, the metaphysical and theological understanding of nature, final causality and explanation, nature as the object of science) and from different perspectives : Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, Thierry of Chartres and the philosophy of nature in the 12th century, Henry Bate and William of Ockham, Duns Scotus. This publication is the result of a research project patronized by Waseda University in Tokyo which confronted Japanese and Western views on nature. It was assumed that an intercultural dialogue on nature, which still is a central concept in modern thought, both ecological and ethical, is not possible without an historical understanding of the formation of this concept in medieval culture. The various contributions of Japanese and Western scholars offer the medieval precedents for such a dialogue.
Author : Marcía L. Colish
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004093270
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages written by Marcía L. Colish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620728
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature written by J. Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Author : Aaron J Kleist
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691328
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Striving With Grace written by Aaron J Kleist and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-11-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace looks at seven authors who wrote either in Latin or Old English, and the ways in which they sought to resolve this fundamental question. For Anglo-Saxon England, as for so much of the medieval West, the problem of individual will was complicated by a widespread theistic tradition that influenced writers, thinkers, and their hypotheses. Aaron J Kleist examines the many factors that produced strikingly different, though often complementary, explanations of free will in early England. Having first established the perspectives of Augustine, he considers two Church Fathers who rivalled Augustine's impact on early England, Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede, and reconstructs their influence on later English writers. He goes on to examine Alfred the Great's Old English Boethius and Lantfred of Winchester's Carmen de libero arbitrio, and the debt that both texts owe to Boethius' classic De consolatione Philosophiae. Finally, Kleist discusses Wulfstan the Homilist and Ælfric of Eynsham, two seminal writers of late Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace shows that all of these authors, despite striking differences in their sources and logic, underscore humanity's need for grace even as they labour to affirm the legitimacy of human effort.
Author : John Sellars
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317675827
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition written by John Sellars and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of study in philosophy and classics, but also in theology and literature. The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is the first volume of its kind, and an outstanding guide and reference source to the nature and continuing significance of stoicism. Comprising twenty-six chapters by a team of international contributors and organised chronologically, the Handbook is divided into four parts: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including stoicism in Rome; stoicism in early Christianity; the Platonic response to stoicism; and stoic influences in the late Middle Ages Renaissance and Reformation, addressing the impact of stoicism on the Italian Renaissance, Reformation thought, and early modern English literature including Shakespeare Early Modern Europe, including stoicism and early modern French thought; the stoic influence on Spinoza and Leibniz; stoicism and the French and Scottish Enlightenment; and Kant and stoic ethics The Modern World, including stoicism in nineteenth century German philosophy; stoicism in Victorian culture; stoicism in America; stoic themes in contemporary Anglo-American ethics; and the stoic influence on modern psychotherapy. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the philosophical history and impact of stoic thought, The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is essential reading for all students and researchers working on the subject.
Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317947606
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old English Prose written by Paul E. Szarmach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the decline of formalism and its predilection for Old English poetry, Old English prose is leaving the periphery and moving into the center of literary and cultural discussion. The extensive corpus of Old English prose lends many texts of various kinds to the current debates over literary theory and its multiple manifestations. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by providing essays that help establish the foundations for considered study and offer models and examples of special studies. Both retrospective and current in its examples, this collection can serve as a "first book" for an introduction to study, particularly suitable for courses that seek to entertain such issues as authorship, texts and textuality, source criticism, genre, and forms of historical criticism as a significant part of a broad, cultural teaching (and research) plan.
