Knowledge Discovery And Imagination In Early Modern Europe
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Author | : Timothy J. Reiss |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521587952 |
A new explanation for the substantial changes of thought that occurred in early modern Europe.
Author | : Timothy J. Reiss |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1997-03-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521582216 |
Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a "spatial" way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes in thought that occurred. He describes how, while teaching and public debate continued to be based in the language arts, scientific and artistic areas came to depend on mathematical disciplines, including music, for new means and methods of discovery, and as a basis for wider sociocultural renewal.
Author | : Jonathan Daly |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350029475 |
One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, spacious gardens, and sophisticated urban amenities; meanwhile, Paris, Rome, and London were cramped and unhygienic collections of villages, and Europe was a backwater. How, then, did it rise to world preeminence over the next several centuries? This is the central historical conundrum of modern times. How Europe Made the Modern World draws upon the latest scholarship dealing with the various aspects of the West's divergence, including geography, demography, technology, culture, institutions, science and economics. It avoids the twin dangers of Eurocentrism and anti-Westernism, strongly emphasizing the contributions of other cultures of the world to the West's rise while rejecting the claim that there was nothing distinctive about Europe in the premodern period. Daly provides a concise summary of the debate from both sides, whilst also presenting his own provocative arguments. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and including maps and images to illuminate key evidence, this book will inspire students to think critically and engage in debates rather than accepting a single narrative of the rise of the West. It is an ideal primer for students studying Western Civilization and World History courses.
Author | : Douglas Trevor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521834698 |
The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.
Author | : Howard Marchitello |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137463619 |
This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among many others. In these essays so-called scientific writing turns out to traffic in metaphor, wit, imagination, and playfulness normally associated with literature provides material forms and rhetorical strategies for thinking physics, mathematics, archeology, and medicine.
Author | : Arielle Saiber |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
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ISBN | : 0802039502 |
Author | : Joseph Loewenstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521812177 |
Author | : Barbara Fuchs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521543507 |
As powerful, pointed imitation, cultural mimesis can effect inclusion in a polity, threaten state legitimacy, or undo the originality upon which such legitimacy is based. In Mimesis and Empire , first published in 2001, Barbara Fuchs explores the intricate dynamics of imitation and contradistinction among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam, both portrayed as 'other' in contemporary texts. It supplements the transatlantic perspective on early modern imperialism with an awareness of the situation in the Mediterranean and considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy.
Author | : Douglas A. Brooks |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521034869 |
Examines how Renaissance dramatists made the difficult transition from playwrights to published authors.
Author | : Michael Wintroub |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017-07-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107188237 |
A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.