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) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2018]
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viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Proceedings of a conference held at the Warburg Institute in London on November 17, 2016.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781622733811 ((hardcover))
    • 1622733819
    LCCN
    2018933285
    OCLC
    1031223905
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