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  • Nothing Natural Is Shameful

    Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe

    de Joan Cadden ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects and events in nature. With this philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • Nothing Natural Is Shameful

    Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe

    de Joan Cadden ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects and events in nature. With this philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Magic of Reality

    How We Know What's Really True

    de Richard Dawkins ...
    An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins.Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. Here, he takes a broader approach and uses his unrivaled explanatory powers to illuminate the ways in ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth

    de Umberto Eco ...
    How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context. ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • What Was History?

    The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • A History of Balance, 1250–1375

    The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought

    de Joel Kaye ...
    The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Erasmus, Man of Letters

    The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • The Critical Nexus

    Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music

    de Charles M. Atkinson ...
    Series series AMS Studies in Music
    The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a broad framework that moves from Greek harmonic theory to the various stages in the transmission of Roman chant, citing ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Composing the World

    Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos

    de Andrew Hicks ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    "We can hear the universe!" This was the triumphant proclamation at a February 2016 press conference announcing that the Laser Interferometer Gravity Observatory (LIGO) had detected a "transient gravitational-wave signal." What LIGO heard in the morning hours of September 14, 2015 was the vibration of cosmic forces unleashed with mind-boggling power across a cosmic medium of equally mind-boggling ... Leer más

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