Anabaptism and Asceticism

Anabaptism and Asceticism
Author: Kenneth R. Davis
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1998-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 157910178X

Dr. Davis explores the Anabaptist emphasis on penitence, personal holiness, and active discipleship to Christ. He examines their view that discipleship involves the rejection of a life of affluence, the civil oath, and participation in the military and the magistracy.

Humanistica Lovaniensia

Humanistica Lovaniensia
Author: Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1995-02-15
Genre: Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN: 9789061866800

As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.

Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries

Incunabula Printed in the Low Countries
Author: Gerard van Thienen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004616349

Incunabula of the Low Countries (ILC) is a census of fifteenth-century books printed in the area of the present-day Netherlands and Belgium. It lists 2,229 editions in more than 14,300 copies preserved in hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives all over the world, but mainly in Europe and the USA. The entries for this census have been derived from the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), the database of incunabula compiled at the British Library. They combine research on Low Countries incunabula carried out by Gerard van Thienen, curator at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, with data assembled by ISTC form other sources. ISTC entries were further edited, indexed and prepared for publication by John Goldfinch at the British Library. Campbell's Annales of 1874, the first bibliography of incunabula printed in the Low Countries with 1794 entries, was followed by a number of supplements of increasing complexity, the most extensive being published by M.E. Kronenberg in 1956. All the former additions and emendations, together with additions not otherwise listed before are now brought together and included in one sequence in ILC.

Tudor Translation

Tudor Translation
Author: F. Schurink
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230361102

Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious, cultural and literary developments of the early modern period, and restore translation to the centre of our understanding of the literature and history of Tudor England.

Between Saint James and Erasmus

Between Saint James and Erasmus
Author: J. Van Herwaarden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004129849

Pilgrimages, especially those to Santiago de Compostela, formed and essential part of late-medieval devotional life, but were criticized by people like Erasmus who in this book is considered from the late-medieval point of view.

Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art

Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art
Author: Simona Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004171010

The relationship between medieval animal symbolism and the iconography of animals in the Renaissance has scarcely been studied. Filling a gap in this significant field of Renaissance culture, in general, and its art, in particular, this book demonstrates the continuity and tenacity of medieval animal interpretations and symbolism, disguised under the veil of genre, religious or mythological narrative and scientific naturalism. An extensive introduction, dealing with relevant medieval and early Renaissance sources, is followed by a series of case studies that illustrate ways in which Renaissance artists revived conventional animal imagery in unprecedented contexts, investing them with new meanings, on a social, political, ethical, religious or psychological level, often by applying exegetical methodology in creating multiple semantic and iconographic levels.Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 2