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Book Les Acad  mies dans l Europe humaniste

Download or read book Les Acad mies dans l Europe humaniste written by Marc Deramaix and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2008 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Héritières de l'Académie de Platon et de la réflexion de Pétrarque sur le loisir lettré, cénacles d'érudits et d'artistes sous la protection de puissants mécènes, les premières académies italiennes et françaises constituent l'un des cadres privilégiés du renouveau philologique, artistique, philosophique et scientifique qui va transfigurer l'Europe de la Renaissance. Les Académies dans l'Europe humaniste forment le premier ouvrage d'une telle envergure sur le sujet ; il pose un regard neuf sur le mouvement académique en Europe jusque vers 1600, notamment les premières académies italiennes (académie romaine de Pomponio Leto, académie napolitaine du Panhormite, puis de Pontano, académie florentine de Careggi, avec Marsile Ficin), les Académies royales françaises du règne des Valois (Académie de Poésie et de Musique, Académie du Palais) sans oublier d'autres organisations contemporaines moins connues. Des recherches documentaires présentent le personnel des divers groupes et les œuvres où s'expriment leurs idéaux. L'observation des rapports qu'elles entretiennent permet de définir la forme et les activités de chaque institution ainsi que la nature de leur contribution à l'extension des savoirs : enrichissement de la philologie classique, de la poétique, de la rhétorique, constitution de dictionnaires ou de répertoires linguistiques, archéologiques ou iconographiques, réflexion sur les arts à la lumière des traditions chrétienne ou néo-platonicienne, ambitions pédagogiques ; se dégage aussi le rôle majeur de la musique dans plusieurs académies. L'étude des liens matériels et idéologiques entre ces sociétés et les Grands (papes, rois, mécènes) donne enfin de mesurer la « liberté » dont jouissent les académies, particulièrement dans leur vocation encyclopédique et européenne.

Book L Italie et la France dans l Europe latine du XIVe au XVIIe si  cle

Download or read book L Italie et la France dans l Europe latine du XIVe au XVIIe si cle written by Société française des études néo-latines. Congrès international and published by Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. This book was released on with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis une trentaine d’années, la tradition latine qui permit à l’Europe de s’inventer occupe une place croissante dans les études littéraires en Europe. Or l’humanisme franco-italien est au centre de l’histoire de l’Europe latine parce qu’il est lié à la redécouverte des textes classiques. C’est pourquoi la philologie des humanistes, organisée par les questions de la réception des textes et de leur influence, occupe la première partie des travaux présentés en 2003 au deuxième Congrès de la Société Française des Études Néo-Latines (SFENL). La deuxième partie des études ici réunies s’attache à la question des parallèles et de l’émulation.De façon naturelle, enfin, la traduction des œuvres latines de la Renaissance italienne dans la langue française ménage une voie à double sens entre l’Italie et la France.Nous sommes persuadés qu’au delà des spécialistes de l’humanisme, cette exploration de la genèse latine de la littérature européenne profitera aux médiévistes, aux seizièmistes et aussi aux dix-septièmistes.

Book Le Guide Musical

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1865
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Le Guide Musical written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

Download or read book Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Walters Art Gallery. This book was released on 2012 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton University Art Museum from February 16 to June 9, 2013."

Book Levant Trade in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Levant Trade in the Middle Ages written by Eliyahu Ashtor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Datini. From the fall of Acre to the journey of Vasco de Gama, the author provides an invaluable description of late medieval Mediterranean trade. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Legal engagement

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  • Author : Collectif
  • Publisher : Publications de l’École française de Rome
  • Release : 2021-07-30
  • ISBN : 2728314659
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Legal engagement written by Collectif and published by Publications de l’École française de Rome. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman empire set law at the center of its very identity. A complex and robust ideology of law and justice is evident not only in the dynamics of imperial administration, but a host of cultural arenas. Citizenship named the privilege of falling under Roman jurisdiction, legal expertise was cultural capital. A faith in the emperor’s intimate concern for justice was a key component of the voluntary connection binding Romans and provincials to the state. Even as law was a central mechanism for control and the administration of state violence, it also exerted a magnetic effect on the peoples under its control. Adopting a range of approaches, the essays explore the impact of Roman law, both in the tribunal and in the culture. Unique to this anthology is attention to legal professionals and cultural intermediaries operating at the empire’s periphery. The studies here allow one to see how law operated among a range of populations and provincials—from Gauls and Brittons to Egyptians and Jews—exploring the ways local peoples creatively navigated, and constructed, their legal realities between Roman and local mores. They draw our attention to the space between laws and legal ideas, between ethnic, especially Jewish, life and law and the structures of Roman might; cases in which shared concepts result in diverse ends; the pageantry of the legal tribunal, the imperatives and corruptions of power differentials; and the importance of reading the gaps between depiction of law and its actual workings. This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program “Judaism and Rome” (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.

Book 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture

Download or read book 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture written by The Getty Conservation Institute and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1991-02-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG, and the National Park Service, under the aegis of US/ICOMOS, the event was organized to promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and research findings on the conservation of earthen architecture. Presentations at the conference covered a diversity of subjects, including the historic traditions of earthen architecture, conservation and restoration, site preservation, studies in consolidation and seismic mitigation, and examinations of moisture problems, clay chemistry, and microstructures. In discussions that focused on the future, the application of modern technologies and materials to site conservation was urged, as was using scientific knowledge of existing structures in the creation of new, low-cost, earthen architecture housing.

Book The Mediterranean World

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  • Author : Monique O'Connell
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
  • Release : 2016-05-15
  • ISBN : 1421419025
  • Pages : 647 pages

Download or read book The Mediterranean World written by Monique O'Connell and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of this hub of culture and commerce: “Enviable readability . . . an excellent classroom text.” —European History Quarterly Located at the intersection of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean has connected societies for millennia, creating a shared space of intense economic, cultural, and political interaction. Greek temples in Sicily, Roman ruins in North Africa, and Ottoman fortifications in Greece serve as reminders that the Mediterranean has no fixed national boundaries or stable ethnic and religious identities. In The Mediterranean World, Monique O’Connell and Eric R. Dursteler examine the history of this contested region from the medieval to the early modern era, beginning with the fall of Rome around 500 CE and closing with Napoleon’s attempted conquest of Egypt in 1798. Arguing convincingly that the Mediterranean should be studied as a singular unit, the authors explore the centuries when no lone power dominated the Mediterranean Sea and invaders brought their own unique languages and cultures to the region. Structured around four interlocking themes—mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers—this book, including maps, photos, and illustrations, brings new dimensions to the concepts of Mediterranean nationality and identity.

Book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture

Download or read book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture written by Jane Fenoulhet and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Book Communication and Conflict

Download or read book Communication and Conflict written by Isabella Lazzarini and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diplomacy has never been a politically-neutral research field, even when it was confined to merely reconstructing the backgrounds of wars and revolutions. In the nineteenth century, diplomacy was integral to the grand narrative of the building of the modern 'nation-State'. This is the first overall study of diplomacy in Early Renaissance Italy since Garrett Mattingly's pioneering work in 1955. It offers an innovative approach to the theme of Renaissance diplomacy, sidestepping the classic dichotomy between medieval and early modern, and re-considering the whole diplomatic process without reducing it to the 'grand narrative' of the birth of resident embassies. Communication and Conflict situates and explains the growth of diplomatic activity from a series of perspectives - political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial - and thus offers a highly sophisticated and persuasive account of causation, change, and impact in respect of a major political and cultural form. The volume also provides the most complete account to date of how it was that specifically Italian forms of diplomacy came to play such a central role, not only in the development of international relations at the European level, but also in the spread and application of humanism and of the new modes of political thinking and political discussion associated with the generations of Machiavelli and Guicciardini.

Book Lake Pavin

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  • Author : Télesphore Sime-Ngando
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-10-31
  • ISBN : 3319399616
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Lake Pavin written by Télesphore Sime-Ngando and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first multidisciplinary scientific work on a deep volcanic maar lake in comparison with other similar temperate lakes. The syntheses of the main characteristics of Lake Pavin are, for the first time, set in a firmer footing comparative approach, encompassing regional, national, European and international aquatic science contexts. It is a unique lake because of its permanently anoxic monimolimnion, and furthermore, because of its small surface area, its substantially low human influence, and by the fact that it does not have a river inflow. The book reflects the scientific research done on the general limnology, history, origin, volcanology and geological environment as well as on the geochemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Other chapters focus on the biology and microbial ecology whereas the sedimentology and paleolimnology are also given attention. This volume will be of special interest to researchers and advanced students, primarily in the fields of limnology, biogeochemistry, and aquatic ecology.

Book Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock

Download or read book Tackling Climate Change Through Livestock written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenhouse gas emissions by the livestock sector could be cut by as much as 30 percent through the wider use of existing best practices and technologies. FAO conducted a detailed analysis of GHG emissions at multiple stages of various livestock supply chains, including the production and transport of animal feed, on-farm energy use, emissions from animal digestion and manure decay, as well as the post-slaughter transport, refrigeration and packaging of animal products. This report represents the most comprehensive estimate made to-date of livestocks contribution to global warming as well as the sectors potential to help tackle the problem. This publication is aimed at professionals in food and agriculture as well as policy makers.

Book History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

Download or read book History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Plainchant

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  • Author : David Hiley
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780198165729
  • Pages : 764 pages

Download or read book Western Plainchant written by David Hiley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Book The Disperata  from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France

Download or read book The Disperata from Medieval Italy to Renaissance France written by Gabriella Scarlatta and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by several generations of poets in Italy and France, to establish a tradition that at times merges with, and at times subverts, Petrarchism.

Book The Rights of War and Peace

Download or read book The Rights of War and Peace written by Hugo Grotius and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents

Download or read book The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: