Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Title | Passionate Peace: Emotions and Religious Coexistence in Later Sixteenth-Century Augsburg PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Dunwoody |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2022-09-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004525955 |
By examining the emotional practices central to political, social, and religious life in late sixteenth-century Augsburg, this book offers a new framework for analyzing religious coexistence in the generations following the Reformation.
A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797
Title | A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 992 |
Release | 2013-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004252525 |
The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D’Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title | Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Marina Belozerskaya |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2005-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892367857 |
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Passion of the Western Mind
Title | Passion of the Western Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Tarnas |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | 560 |
Release | 2011-10-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0307804526 |
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe
Title | History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Rationalism |
ISBN |
The History of Terrorism
Title | The History of Terrorism PDF eBook |
Author | Gérard Chaliand |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 2016-08-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520292502 |
First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.
On Religion Considered in Its Source, Its Forms, and Its Developments
Title | On Religion Considered in Its Source, Its Forms, and Its Developments PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Constant |
Publisher | Liberty Fund |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780865978966 |
Constant (1767-1830) regarded On Religion, worked on over the course of many years, as perhaps his most important philosophical work. He called it "the only interest, the only consolation of my life," and "the book that I was destined by nature to write." On Religion is essential reading and of interest for many reasons. As an analysis of humanity's religious experience, the work is notable for its methodology. Unlike previous writers with dogmatic commitments, whether theological or philosophical, Constant aimed to work with well-established facts and to relate religious forms to their historical contexts and civilizational developments. In this way, he was a precursor of the scientific study of religion. This work demonstrates that principled liberalism can turn a sympathetic as well as analytic eye toward religion, and in an unbegrudging way find an important place for it in free society. There are signs that this is a lesson that contemporary liberalism would do well to relearn.