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Cultural encounters : cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / edited by Désirée Cappa, [et al.].
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Cultural Encounters: Tensions and Polarities of Transmission from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (2016 : London)
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English
Published/Created
Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2018]
Description
viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN663 .C85 2016
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European literature
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History
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Congresses
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Culture
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History
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Arts, European
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History
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Humanism
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Cappa, Désirée
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Series
Vernon series in world history
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Proceedings of a conference held at the Warburg Institute in London on November 17, 2016.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / James E. Christie, Lorenza Gay, Finn Schulze-Feldmann
I. Encounters with the past
Juno in the 'Epistre othea' by Christine de Pizan : an investigation of the pictorial antecedents and of the literary sources / Lorenza Gay
From pagan god to magical being : the changing face of the Faerie King and its cultural implications / Angana Moitra
Dante and the Romans d{u2019}Antiquité : a possible port of call for Dante? / Sophie Fuller
II. Encounters with religion
"Latin vice" and "hellenic charm" : Maximus the Greek and renaissance debates on astrology in sixteenth-century Muscovy / Ovanes Akopyan
Notes on the transmission and the reception of the 'Sefer hekhalot' in the renaissance / Margherita Mantovani
'Sacrum bellum', 'Expeditio ad Sanctam Terram' or 'Päpstlich Verfolgung? The crusades in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography / Finn Schulze-Feldmann
Confucius at "De Batavische Mercurius" : Governor General of the Dutch East Indies Pieter van Hoorn and the first vernacular translation of the Chinese Confucius / Trude Dijkstra
III. Encounters with humanity
Stepping sideways on the 'Scala naturae' : confronting the extraterrestrial in early modern literature / James E. Christie
The mechanisation of symbols : the medieval wolf and the new science of nature / Ivan Dimitrijevic
"Necessitas facit licitum, quod in lege illicitum est" : Alberico Gentili, the Puritans, and the controversy over drama / Cristiano Ragni.
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9781622733811 ((hardcover))
1622733819
LCCN
2018933285
OCLC
1031223905
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