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Book No Place of Rest

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  • Author : Susan L. Einbinder
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780812241150
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book No Place of Rest written by Susan L. Einbinder and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Place of Rest pursues the literary traces of the traumatic expulsion of Jews from France in 1306. Through careful readings of liturgical, philosophical, memorial, and medical texts, Susan Einbinder reveals how medieval Jews asserted their identity in exile.

Book Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy written by James Hankins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi—the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli—who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance. At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the wisdom and virtue of Greece and Rome. But how could this be done? A new school of social reformers concluded that the best way to revitalize corrupt institutions was to promote an ambitious new form of political meritocracy aimed at nurturing virtuous citizens and political leaders. The greatest thinker in this tradition of virtue politics was Francesco Patrizi of Siena, a humanist philosopher whose writings were once as famous as Machiavelli’s. Patrizi wrote two major works: On Founding Republics, addressing the enduring question of how to reconcile republican liberty with the principle of merit; and On Kingship and the Education of Kings, which lays out a detailed program of education designed to instill the qualities necessary for political leadership—above all, practical wisdom and sound character. The first full-length study of Patrizi’s life and thought in any language, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy argues that Patrizi is a thinker with profound lessons for our time. A pioneering advocate of universal literacy who believed urban planning could help shape civic values, he concluded that limiting the political power of the wealthy, protecting the poor from debt slavery, and reducing the political independence of the clergy were essential to a functioning society. These ideas were radical in his day. Far more than an exemplar of his time, Patrizi deserves to rank alongside the great political thinkers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Jean Bodin.

Book New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric

Download or read book New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric written by Laurent Pernot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers over forty papers by leading scholars in the field of the history of rhetoric. It illustrates the current trends in this new area of research and offers a great richness of insights. The contributors are from fourteen different countries in Europe, America and Asia ; the majority of the papers are in English and French, some others in German, Italian, and Spanish. The texts and subjects covered include the Bible, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Europe, Chinese and Korean civilization, and the contemporary world. Word, speech, language and institutions are addressed from several points of view. One major topic, among many others, is Rhetoric and Religion.

Book The Making of the Humanities

Download or read book The Making of the Humanities written by Rens Bod and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in 'The making of the humanities' series focuses on the early modern period. Specialists from various disciplines offer their view on the history of linguistics, literary studies, musicology, historiography, and philosophy.

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Parola e la musica nel divenire dell umanesimo

Download or read book La Parola e la musica nel divenire dell umanesimo written by Centro di Studi Umanistici and published by Librarie Droz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index of Conference Proceedings Received

Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings Received written by British Library. Lending Division and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalogs

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milan and Lombardy in the Renaissance

Download or read book Milan and Lombardy in the Renaissance written by Cynthia Munro Pyle and published by Fenice. This book was released on 1997 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to Neo Latin Literature

Download or read book A Guide to Neo Latin Literature written by Victoria Moul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More's Utopia, Milton's Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book Acta Conventus Neo Latini Vindobonensis

Download or read book Acta Conventus Neo Latini Vindobonensis written by Astrid Steiner-Weber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities of Europe and North America. In August 2015, Vienna in Austria was the venue of the sixteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Vienna conference have been collected in this volume under the motto “Contextus Neolatini – Neo-Latin in Local, Trans-Regional and Worldwide Contexts – Neulatein im lokalen, transregionalen und weltweiten Kontext”. Sixty-five individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.

Book Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome

Download or read book Renaissance Humanism in Papal Rome written by John F. D'Amico and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scholars of Early Modern Studies

Download or read book Scholars of Early Modern Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Umanesimo a Roma nel Quattrocento

Download or read book Umanesimo a Roma nel Quattrocento written by Paolo Brezzi and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Theology

Download or read book History of Theology written by Angelo Di Berardino and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: