This text presents the presuppositions of medieval society by integrating brief selections from primary texts and photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. It encompasses classical and biblical antecedents of medieval culture, the Early and High Mid…
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This text presents the presuppositions of medieval society by integrating brief selections from primary texts and photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. It encompasses classical and biblical antecedents of medieval culture, the Early and High Mid…
Heroic sagas and ballads
by Mitchell, Stephen A., (Stephen Arthur)
fromMyth and poetics
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Type: Book
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated d…
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated d…
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he…
"Allegorical readings always being as counter-readings, starting with denial or negation: "You have read the text this way, but I will read it differently." But allegory may do more than merely challenge the literal sense--it may also revise prevailing cultural ideals and social…
In Aristotle¿́¿s Ever-turning World in Physics 8 Dougal Blyth analyses, passage by passage, Aristotle¿́¿s reasoning in his explanation of cosmic movement, and provides a detailed evaluation of ancient and modern commentary on this centrally influential text in the history of ancie…
Met lit. opg. - Met reg. Attention is given to the role various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history. In this context the relation of art and the state in Imperial Rome and of language and culture in the medieval world and t…
This book looks at the roles various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history. Evan Alderson's introduction places the work within its social, political and historical framework. Robin Blaser addresses the problem of how we can …
