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Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature /
In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "from the Mushrome to the Angels" or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creatio...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1982]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- To the Reader
- Abbreviations
- 1. "Quaterniond into their celestiall Princedoms": The Orders of the Angels
- 2. "Ascending by Degrees Magnificent": Connections Between Heaven and Earth
- 3. "The Exact Compute of Time": Estimates of the Year of Creation
- 4. "Those mysterious things they observe in numbers": Approaches to Numerology
- 5. "With his face towards Heaven": The Upright Form of Man
- 6. "The first promise made to man": The Edenic Origins of Protestantism
- 7. "That great and indisputable miracle": The Cessation of the Oracles
- 8. "The beast with many heads": Views on the Multitude
- 9. "The bloody and cruell Turke": The Judgments of God in History
- 10. "A palpable hieroglyphick": The Fable of Pope Joan
- 11. "A horror beyond our expression": The Dimensions of Hell
- 12. "A Principle of infinite Love": The Salvation of Satan
- Index nominum
- Index rerum