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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kirk essary”
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  • The Renaissance of Feeling

    Erasmus and Emotion

    by Kirk Essary ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    Offering a re-reading of Erasmus's works, this book shows that emotion and affectivity were central to his writings. It argues that Erasmus's conception of emotion was highly complex and richly diverse by tracing how the Dutch humanist writes about emotion not only from different perspectives-theological, philosophical, literary, rhetorical, medical-but also in different genres. In doing so, this ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God

    Reason and Emotion in the Christian Philosophy

    by Kirk Essary ...
    Series series Erasmus Studies
    What did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul's discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the “Christian philosophy.”Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God reveals the importance of Pauline ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800

    Edited by Kirk Essary, Juanita Ruys, Michael Champion ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
    Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period. Focusing specifically on the premodern cognates of ‘affect’ or ‘affection’ (such as affectus, affectio, affeccioun, etc.), an international team of scholars explores the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

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  • Imagine No Religion

    How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

    by Carlin A. Barton, Daniel Boyarin ...
    "Shed[s] new light on the fascinating transformations of these words [religio, threskeia] in the shadow of Roman imperial power." —Brent Nongbri, award-winning author of God's LibraryWhat do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opus Dei

    An Archaeology of Duty

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Erasmus, Man of Letters

    The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

    by Lisa Jardine, Lisa Jardine ...
    The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself—the historical as opposed ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Medieval Essays

    by Étienne Gilson ...
    Translated by James G. Colbert ...
    This book is a collection of nine articles by the twentieth century's leading medievalist, Étienne Gilson. A major participant in the revival of Thomistic philosophy, Gilson was a member of the French Academy and, after a university career culminating at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, he turned down an invitation from Harvard University to become the guiding spirit of the Pontifical ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rewriting Magic

    An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk

    by Claire Fanger ...
    Series series Magic in History
    In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John’s book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Collects of the Roman Missals

    A Comparative Study of the Sundays in Proper Seasons before and after the Second Vatican Council

    by Professor Lauren Pristas ...
    Series series T&T Clark Studies in Fundamental Liturgy
    This study examines the collects assigned to the Sundays and major feasts of the proper seasons in the ordinary and extraordinary forms of the Roman rite. The Latin collects assigned to each day in the typical editions of the respective missals are compared and contrasted both with their respective sources and with one another. Pertinent discussions and decisions of the Consilium study groups ... Read more

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  • Christ and the Decree

    Christology and Predestination in Reformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins

    by Richard Muller ...
    In Christ and the Decree, one of the foremost scholars of Calvinism today expounds the doctrines of Christ and predestination as they were developed by Calvin, Bullinger, Musculus, Vermigli, Beza, Ursinus, Zanchi, Polanus, and Perkins. Muller analyzes the relationship of these two doctrines to each other and to the soteriological structure of the system.Back by demand, this seminal work on the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD