Author: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503549217
Category : Animals (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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: 9782503549972
Category : Animals (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Love in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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'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:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Thomas Willard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782503590448
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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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: 9782503590639
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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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: 9780521293280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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An introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phrases of the scientific revolution.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107658926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Author: Margaret J. Osler
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 080189655X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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Ultimately, she shows how a few gifted students of nature changed the way we see ourselves and the universe.
Author: Margaret J. Osler
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421412489
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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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.
