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Book Fons Sapientiae

Download or read book Fons Sapientiae written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fons Sapientiae

Download or read book Fons Sapientiae written by Elisabeth B. MacDougall and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewish Christian Gospel Tradition

Download or read book Jewish Christian Gospel Tradition written by Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work represents the first independent study of the Jewish-Christian Gospel fragments and of the use of the Jewish-Christian Gospel tradition in early Christian and medieval literature. The author identifies and introduces the Jewish-Christian Gospels and their sources, presents a critical study of genuine and spurious references to Jewish-Christian Gospels, and then goes on to offer a critical text (with apparatus and bibliography), a translation and a full commentary for each individual fragment.

Book Instructions

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  • Author : St. Columba of Iona
  • Publisher : Dalcassian Press
  • Release : 2016-06-01
  • ISBN : 1087935776
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Instructions written by St. Columba of Iona and published by Dalcassian Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, which in its original Latin was 'Instructiones' is a composition by the Irish St. Columba, dedicated to provided moral direction for the various people in the care of the saint and his disciples. This largely entails a rejection of personal pride, a commitment to poverty and chastity, and an indwelling sense of restrain that should be observed at all times. These are intended to form a sense of personal moral discipline and insight into our own psychological limitations. This text is presented in both its original Latin, as well as an English translation.

Book Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources

Download or read book Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources written by Katerina Ierodiakonou and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine philosophy is an almost unexplored field. Being regarded either as mere scholars or as primarily religious thinkers, Byzantine philosophers, for the most part, have not been studied on their own philosophical merit, and their works have hardly been scrutinized as works of philosophy.Thus, although distinguished scholars in the past have tried to reconstruct the intellectual life of the Byzantine period, there is no question that we still lack even the beginnings of a systematic understanding of the philosophy of the Byzantines.Byzantine Philosophy and its Ancient Sources is conceived as a concerted attempt in this direction. It examines the attitude the Byzantines took towards the ancient philosophical tradition and the specific ancient sources which they relied upon to form their theories. But did the Byzantines merelycopy ancient philosophers or interpret them the way they already had been interpreted in late antiquity? Does Byzantine philosophy as a whole lack a distinctive character which differentiates it from the previous periods in the history of philosophy?Eleven scholars, representing different disciplines from philosophy and history to classics and medieval studies, approach these questions by thoroughly investigating particular topics which give us some insight as to the directions in which we should look for possible answers. These topics range,in modern terms, from philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, and logic, to political philosophy, ethics, natural philosophy, and metaphysics. The philosophers whose works our contributors study belong to all periods from the beginnings of Byzantine culture in the fourth century to the demiseof the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century.

Book Six Translations from the Old and New Testaments Into Homeric Verse

Download or read book Six Translations from the Old and New Testaments Into Homeric Verse written by Henry Montagu Butler and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Psychology of the Transference

Download or read book The Psychology of the Transference written by C.G. Jung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Jung's handling of the transference between psychologist and patient in the light of his conception of the archetypes. Based on the symbolic illustrations in a sixteenth century alchemical text.

Book FONS SAPIENTIAE

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  • Author : Dumbarton Oaks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book FONS SAPIENTIAE written by Dumbarton Oaks and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lord Burlington

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  • Author : Toby Barnard
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781852850944
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Lord Burlington written by Toby Barnard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Burlington's fame, surprisingly little has been written about him. Lord Burlington: Architecture, Art and Life presents a modern reassessment of his career, while setting him in a broader context than has usually been the case, to reflect both his interests outside architecture and to present his character in the round. Architecture is given pride of place, but his other interests, in land-owning, politics and literature, are also examined, throwing much new light on an exceptionally significant and attractive figure.

Book Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer

Download or read book Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer written by Hugh Latimer and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection from the sermons of the most popular preacher of the English Reformation. The only edition of the sermons now in print, this volume contains a chronological table of Latimer's life and an introduction outlining his reformist ideas and the steps which led to his martyrdom.

Book Water

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  • Author : Veronica Strang
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2015-04-15
  • ISBN : 178023483X
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Water written by Veronica Strang and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As any scientist will tell you, there is no substance more vital than water. Our history is necessarily a history with water, whether we have irrigated our fields with it, cooled our machines, washed ourselves, drank it down deeply, or even worshipped it. In Water, Veronic Strang ladles through the rich history of our interaction with water, offering an accessible examination of the crucial properties that make water so unique alongside the complex story of our evolving relationship with it. As Strang shows, our attitudes about water and the things that we rely on it for have changed dramatically over time. Once a mystical source of regenerative powers, it has since played various roles as our attitudes about hygiene, health, and disease have developed; as it has become useful to our industry; as agriculture has become ever more complex; and, of course, as we have learned to make money from it. Today water—who controls it, and how—is one of the largest issues facing our society, influencing everything from the welfare of the billions of people living on earth to the vitality of its natural habitats. Balancing history, science, and environmental and cultural studies, Strang offers an important, multi-faceted view of a critical resource.

Book The Cistercian Evolution

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  • Author : Constance Hoffman Berman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2010-08-03
  • ISBN : 0812200799
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book The Cistercian Evolution written by Constance Hoffman Berman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that called for extreme asceticism, rejection of feudal revenues, and manual labor for monks. Their third leader, Stephen Harding, issued a constitution, the Carta Caritatis, that called for the uniformity of custom in all Cistercian monasteries and the establishment of an annual general chapter meeting at Cîteaux. The Cistercian order grew phenomenally in the mid-twelfth century, reaching beyond France to Portugal in the west, Sweden in the north, and the eastern Mediterranean, ostensibly through a process of apostolic gestation, whereby members of a motherhouse would go forth to establish a new house. The abbey at Clairvaux, founded by Bernard in 1115, was alone responsible for founding 68 of the 338 Cistercian abbeys in existence by 1153. But this well-established view of a centrally organized order whose founders envisioned the shape and form of a religious order at its prime is not borne out in the historical record. Through an investigation of early Cistercian documents, Constance Hoffman Berman proves that no reliable reference to Stephen's Carta Caritatis appears before the mid-twelfth century, and that the document is more likely to date from 1165 than from 1119. The implications of this fact are profound. Instead of being a charter by which more than 300 Cistercian houses were set up by a central authority, the document becomes a means of bringing under centralized administrative control a large number of loosely affiliated and already existing monastic houses of monks as well as nuns who shared Cistercian customs. The likely reason for this administrative structuring was to check the influence of the overdominant house of Clairvaux, which threatened the authority of Cîteaux through Bernard's highly successful creation of new monastic communities. For centuries the growth of the Cistercian order has been presented as a spontaneous spirituality that swept western Europe through the power of the first house at Cîteaux. Berman suggests instead that the creation of the religious order was a collaborative activity, less driven by centralized institutions; its formation was intended to solve practical problems about monastic administration. With the publication of The Cistercian Evolution, for the first time the mechanisms are revealed by which the monks of Cîteaux reshaped fact to build and administer one of the most powerful and influential religious orders of the Middle Ages.

Book The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

Download or read book The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies written by Simone Celine Marshall and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assembly of Ladies is a fifteenth-century secular love poem in Middle English that adheres closely to conventional poetic structures, but throws these conventions into relief as it presents the narrative from a woman’s point of view, a rare occurrence for poetry of this period. Who wrote it, for whom and why, are questions about which we can speculate, but never ultimately answer–the poem itself gives us few clues. Yet the poem has had a remarkable shelf-life; in subsequent centuries the poem has continued to be noticed, read, and debated, as a small but significant artefact from fifteenth-century England. This book examines how fifteenth-century English social conventions impact upon gender relations in The Assembly of Ladies. By drawing on contemporary (and clearly influential) texts from the fifteenth century as a comparison, Marshall shows how The Assembly of Ladies has integrated social conventions into its themes and structure, elevating for the reader the ways that social and literary conventions impact on women in the production and consumption of literature.

Book Aristotle s Ethics in the Italian Renaissance  ca  1300 1650

Download or read book Aristotle s Ethics in the Italian Renaissance ca 1300 1650 written by David Lines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the teaching of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (the standard textbook for moral philosophy) in the universities of Renaissance Italy. Special attention is given to how university commentaries on the Ethics reflect developments in educational theory and practice and in humanist Aristotelianism. After surveying the fortune of the Ethics in the Latin West to 1650 and the work’s place in the universities, the discussion turns to Italian interpretations of the Ethics up to 1500 (Part Two) and then from 1500 to 1650 (Part Three). The focus is on the universities of Florence-Pisa, Padua, Bologna, and Rome (including the Collegio Romano). Five substantial appendices document the institutional context of moral philosophy and the Latin interpretations of the Ethics during the Italian Renaissance. Largely based on archival and unpublished sources, this study provides striking evidence for the continuing vitality of university Aristotelianism and for its fruitful interaction with humanism on the eve of the early modern era.

Book That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom

Download or read book That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom written by M.F. Sia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale follows fictitious characters as they journey in search of wisdom and the fulfillment of their objectives. Set mainly in the fascinating university town of Leuven, Belgium, it revolves around the personal, social, political and academic aspirations of visiting scholars in the town. Richard Gutierrez from the USA needs to get tenure at his university. Jennifer Sydney from England is determined to advance her career. Aisling O’Shea and her six-year old son Philip from Ireland have different expectations of their trip. Piotr Malachowski wants to understand a life rooted in the bitter experiences of the internment camp of Majdanek in Poland. The nationalistic Fr Miguel Fuentes from the Philippines wonders what he can learn from a Western university to deal with the challenges in his country. What starts out as an academic sojourn for these individuals becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross in Leuven and they learn about each other and themselves and about life itself.

Book Threads and Traces

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  • Author : Carlo Ginzburg
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2012-09-02
  • ISBN : 0520274482
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Threads and Traces written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʾs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians"--Provided by publisher.

Book Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England

Download or read book Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England written by Linda Levy Peck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.