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How the west was won : essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /
"How the West Was Won" contains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural horizons and ideals, and including...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 188. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco ..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Peter Cramer
- Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / Frans-Willem Korsten
- History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Ernst van den Hemel
- Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Anselm Haverkamp
- Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / Joke Spaans
- From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Alastair Hamilton
- Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / Madeleine Kasten
- The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Piet de Roy
- Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / Rokus de Groot
- The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Peter Raedts
- Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Irene Zwiep
- Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Leen Spruit
- Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Willemien Otten
- Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / Asja Szafraniec
- On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Paola Marrati
- Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Hent de Vries
- Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / Giselle de Nie
- The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Bram Kempers
- Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / Bernard McGinn
- De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / Marcia L. Colish
- The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Babette Hellemans
- Tempus longum ... locus asper ... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Ineke van 't Spijker
- Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / Arjo Vanderjagt
- The monastic challenge : remarks / Helmut Kohlenberger.