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“domenico comparetti”

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  • Vergil in the Middle Ages

    by Domenico Comparetti ...
    Translated by E. F.M. Benecke ...
    From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    by Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Dante and Philosophy

    by Etienne Gilson ...
    The object of this work is to define Dante's attitude or, if need be, his successive attitudes towards philosophy. It is therefore a question of ascertaining the character, function and place which Dante assigned to this branch of learning among the activities of man. My purpose has not been to single out, classify and list Dante's numerous philosophical ideas, still less to look for their sources ... Read more

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  • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

    by Frances A. Yates ...
    First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • What Was History?

    The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

    by Anthony Grafton ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Studies In Iconology

    Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance

    by Erwin Panofsky ...
    In Studies in Iconology, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies. ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

    by Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • 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

    $19.49 USD

  • The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1530

    by Rob C. Wegman ...
    In the final decades of the fifteenth-century, the European musical world was shaken to its foundations by the onset of a veritable culture war on the art of polyphony. Now in paperback, The Crisis of Music in Early Modern**Europe tells the story of this cultural upheaval, drawing on a wide range of little-known texts and documents, and weaving them together in a narrative that takes the reader on ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Comments on A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages

    by Lord Acton ...
    John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 19 June 1902), is better known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton. Lord Acton was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer born into a family full of nobility. Acton spent much time in the chief intellectual centers of Europe and in the United States, making friends with ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Royal Touch (Routledge Revivals)

    Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Translated by J. Anderson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Selected Works of Marc Bloch
    First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history, both France and England claimed to hold kings with healing powers who, by their touch, could cure people from all strands of society from illness and disease. Indeed, the idea of royalty as something miraculous and sacred was common to the whole of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD