Medium aevum
Title | Medium aevum PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Arthur Walter Bennett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 1964 |
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Medium Ævum
Title | Medium Ævum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Literature, Medieval |
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Includes section "Reviews".
The Worlds of Petrarch
Title | The Worlds of Petrarch PDF eBook |
Author | Giuseppe Mazzotta |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1993-10-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780822313960 |
At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades scholars have explored each of these worlds in depth. In this work, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows for the first time how all these fragmentary explorations relate to each other, how these separate worlds are part of a common vision. Written in a clear and passionate style, The Worlds of Petrarch takes us into the politics of culture, the poetic imagination, into history and ethics, art and music, rhetoric and theology. With this encyclopedic strategy, Mazzotta is able to demonstrate that the self for Petrarch is not a unified whole but a unity of parts, and, at the same time, that culture emerges not from a consensus but from a conflict of ideas produced by opposition and dark passion. These conflicts, intrinsic to Petrarch's style of thought, lead Mazzotta to a powerful rethinking of the concepts of "fragments" and "unity" and, finally, to a new understanding of the relationship between them. Essential to students of Medieval and Renaissance literature, this book will engage anyone interested in the development of modernity as it has evolved in culture and is understood today.
Medium Aevum Monographs
Title | Medium Aevum Monographs PDF eBook |
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Release | 1936 |
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Medium Aevum and the Middle Age
Title | Medium Aevum and the Middle Age PDF eBook |
Author | George Gordon (Geistlicher, Naturforscher, Paläontologe, Grossbritannien) |
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Release | 1925 |
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S.P.E. Tract
Title | S.P.E. Tract PDF eBook |
Author | Society for Pure English |
Publisher | |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | English language |
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Remaking the Middle Ages
Title | Remaking the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew B.R. Elliott |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0786461764 |
Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography to demonstrate how contemporary filmmakers have attempted to recreate the past in a way that, while largely imagined, is also logical, meaningful, and as truthful as possible. Carrying out this critical approach, the author analyzes a wide range of films depicting the Middle Ages, arguing that most of these films either reflect the past through a series of visual signs (a concept he has called "iconic recreation") or by comparing the past to a modern equivalent (called "paradigmatic representation").