Cultural Encounters Cross Disciplinary Studies From The Late Middle Ages To The Enlightenment

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This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the multi- and interdisciplinary approach, with papers on a broad range of historical times, places, and subjects. While each essay makes a valuable and original contribution to its relevant field(s), the collection as a whole is an attempt to probe more general questions and issues concerning the productive outcomes of cultural encounters throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The collection is divided into three sections organised thematically and chronologically. The first, ‘Encounters with the Past,’ focuses on the reception of classical antiquity in medieval images and texts from France, Italy and the British Isles. The second, ‘Encounters with Religion,’ presents a selection of instances in which political, philosophical and natural philosophical issues arise within inter-religious contexts. The final section, ‘Encounters with Humanity,’ contains essays on early science fiction, political symbolism, and Elizabethan drama theory, all of which deal with the conception and expression of humanity, on both the individual and societal level. This volume’s wide range of topics and methodological approaches makes it an important point of reference for researchers and practitioners within the humanities who have an interest in the (cross-)cultural history of the medieval and Renaissance periods.

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Genre : History
Author : Désirée Cappa
Publisher : Vernon Press
Release : 2019-01-15
File : 183 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781622735372


Twilight Of The Godlings

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A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain's small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings.

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Genre : History
Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2023-03-31
File : 385 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781009330367


Fate And Fortune In European Thought Ca 1400 1650

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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.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2021-04-26
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004459960


Rediscovering Enoch The Antediluvian Past From The Fifteenth To Nineteenth Centuries

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As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.

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Genre : Religion
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Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2023-02-13
File : 464 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004537514


Debating The Stars In The Italian Renaissance

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An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2020-10-12
File : 272 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004442276


Teaching Medieval And Early Modern Cross Cultural Encounters

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Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : K. Attar
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2014-12-17
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781137465726


Fashionable Encounters

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At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the time frame AD 1500–1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social, political and economic change, from feudal Europe through political revolution, industrialisation, development of international trade, religious upheaval and technological innovation; changes impacting on every aspect of life and reflected in equally rapid and widespread changes in fashion at all levels of society. These papers present a broad image of the theme of fashion as a concept and as an empirical manifestation in the Nordic countries in early modernity, exploring a variety of ways in which that world encountered fashionable impressions in clothing and related aspects of material culture from Europe, the Russian Empire, and far beyond. The chapters range from object-based studies to theory-driven analysis. Elite and sophisticated fashions, the importation of luxuries and fashion garments, christening and bridal wear, silk knitted waistcoats, woollen sweaters and the influence of the whaling trade on women’s clothing are some of the diverse topics considered, as well as religious influences on perceptions of luxury and aspects of the garment trade and merchant inventories.

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Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Author : Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Release : 2014-05-30
File : 281 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781782973836


Teaching The Global Middle Ages

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While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Release : 2022-10-28
File : 263 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781603295192


Cornell University Courses Of Study

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Genre : Universities and colleges
Author : Cornell University
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Release : 2003
File : 712 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924094648825


Dissertation Abstracts International

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Genre : Dissertations, Academic
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Release : 2002
File : 642 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105112755439