Download or read book R seaux de correspondance l ge classique written by Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire and published by Université de Saint-Etienne. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions de deux colloques consacrés aux réseaux de correspondance à l'âge classique. L'accent y est mis sur l'entrée de l'individu dans un réseau de relations aux fonctions diverses, qui donnent un sens et un poids sociaux aux actes individuels. Permet de les envisager dans l'évolution de la structure des clientèles de l'Ancien Régime.
Download or read book Digital Humanities written by Olivier Le Deuff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do the digital humanities really come from? Are they really news? What are the theoretical and technical influences that participate in this scientific field that arouses interest and questions? This book tries to show and explain the main theories and methods that have allowed their current constitution. The aim of the book is to propose a new way to understand the history of digital humanities in a broader perspective than the classic history with the project of Robert Busa. The short digital humanities perspective neglects lots of actors and disciplines. The book tries to show the importance of other fields than humanities computing like scientometry, infometry, econometry, mathematical linguistics, geography and documentation.
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.
Download or read book The Dark Side of the Enlightenment Wizards Alchemists and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason written by John V. Fleming and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy. In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment—generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion—were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the “darker” pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His engaging topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and the widespread pursuit of magic and alchemy. Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for understanding the strange and fascinating figures in this book than the prestige of alchemy among the learned men of the age. Fleming follows some of these complexities and contradictions of the “Age of Lights” into the biographies of two of its extraordinary offspring. The first is the controversial wizard known as Count Cagliostro, the “Egyptian” freemason, unconventional healer, and alchemist known most infamously for his ambiguous association with the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which history has viewed as among the possible harbingers of the French Revolution and a major contributing factor in the growing unpopularity of Marie Antoinette. Fleming also reviews the career of Julie de Krüdener, the sentimental novelist, Pietist preacher, and political mystic who would later become notorious as a prophet. Impressively researched and wonderfully erudite, this rich narrative history sheds light on some lesser-known mental extravagances and beliefs of the Enlightenment era and brings to life some of the most extraordinary characters ever encountered either in history or fiction.
Download or read book Humanistica Lovaniensia written by Dirk Sacré and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.
Download or read book Erasmus of Rotterdam written by William Barker and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language popular biography of widely influential northern Renaissance scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam in twenty years. Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse his friends as well as his opponents. His ideas about language, society, scholarship, and religion influenced the rise of the Reformation and had a huge impact on the humanities, and that influence continues today. This book shows how an independent textual scholar was able, by the power of the printing press and his wits, to attain both fame and notoriety. Drawing on the immense wealth of recent scholarship devoted to Erasmus, Erasmus of Rotterdam is the first English-language popular biography of this crucial thinker in twenty years.
Download or read book The Internationalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe 1636 1780 written by Robert Mankin and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world.The volume sets out from biographical contexts in such a way that the work as a whole is offered as a gallery of portraits leading from one kind of cultural understanding to another and then another... Geographically, the range is broadly European (England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) though the aim is never to display how national identities arose. Nor is this range a matter of ‘covering’ the field. The figures treated were all important in their own right, and yet too often they receive scholarly attention only in passing. The singular identity studied here, if there is one, could be Europe’s, but the theme emphasized now and then is also that of the ‘internationalization’ of intellectual activity in a very long eighteenth century. The bookend chapters involving the understanding of the Orient reinforce the internationalization and the fostering of a European identity. The volume aims less to highlight or track specific ideas transported from one cultural context to another, though there are necessarily many examples given. It proposes instead to illustrate the evolution of post-humanist cultural activity in Europe, by beginning with a series of studies in which debate arises from religious positions (not only Protestant, but Muslim, Catholic, Jesuit, Jansenist and Jewish traditions) and closing with debate become philosophical and encyclopedic. As such, the volume documents a characteristic view of the transformation of early modern intellectual activity as its center moves from religion to philosophy; and it thereby draws special attention to the essays in the middle of the volume. These deal with figures active towards the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, and their abilities, difficulties and conflicts in finding new spaces for intellectual life outside of religious and political institutions—in public discussions of philosophy, toleration, journalism, law and the curious spatialization we refer to as Anglophilia.
Download or read book Ideas Across Borders written by Gaby Mahlberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c. 1600 to 1840. Translations played a crucial role in the transmission of political ideas across linguistic and cultural borders in early modern Europe. Yet intellectual historians have been slow to adopt the study of translations as an analytical tool for the understanding of such cultural transfers. Recently, a number of different approaches to transnational intellectual history have emerged, allowing historians of early modern Europe to draw on work not just in translation studies, literary studies, conceptual history, the history of political thought and the history of scholarship, but also in the history of print and its significance for cultural transfer. Thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis of texts in translation can place them more accurately in time and space. This book provides a better understanding of the extent to which ideas crossed linguistic and cultural divides, and how they were re-shaped in the process. Written in an accessible style, this volume is aimed at scholars in cognate disciplines as well as at postgraduate students.
Download or read book Professors Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine written by Gideon Manning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor Nancy Siraisi and reflects the impact that Siraisi's scholarship has had on a range of fields. Contributions address several topics ranging from the medical provenance of biblical commentary to the early modern emergence of pathological medicine. Along the way, readers may learn of the purchasing habits of physician-book collectors, the writing of history and the development of natural history. Modeling the interdisciplinary approaches championed by Siraisi, this volume attests to the enduring value of her scholarship while also highlighting critical areas of future research. Those with an interest in the history of science, the history of medicine and all related fields will find this work a stimulating and rewarding read.
Download or read book Dictionary of Seventeenth Century French Philosophers written by Luc Foisneau and published by Thoemmes. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
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Download or read book Cultural Transfers written by Ann Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural transfers between eighteenth-century France and Britain did much to shape the intellectual identity of each nation. But what were the main channels of communication? How did they function? What was their impact? In Cultural transfers: France and Britain in the long eighteenth century a team of specialists focuses on the networks and correspondences on which these exchanges were based, the concrete form they took and the material, political or ideological constraints which governed them. Particular attention is paid to the roles of: intermediaries such as diplomats, scientific institutions, or the Huguenot exiles who played a crucial part in disseminating English scientific, theological and political writings gazettes, learned periodicals, and government-sponsored journals where the French learned about British political debates and institutions translators, who could significantly alter texts in line with their own preconceptions and agendas or the expectations of their readers This multidisciplinary book moves beyond the classic concern with 'influences' of one author or culture on another. It presents a new understanding of the hidden international networks that sustained the Republic of Letters and of the synthesis that emerged through contacts and interaction between French and British culture.
Download or read book Archives Internationales D histoire Des Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Libert de conscience et arts de penser XVIe XVIIIe si cle written by Christelle Bahier-Porte and published by Honoré Champion. This book was released on 2017 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Par ses travaux sur Port-Royal et le jansénisme, sur Pierre Bayle et le protestantisme en France et aux Refuges et sur l'expression et la diffusion de la libre pensée et de la tolérance en Europe, Antony McKenna a considérablement enrichi la connaissance et la compréhension des débats complexes qui jalonnent l'Âge classique et les Lumières. Les études réunies dans ce volume entendent rendre hommage à ces travaux essentiels qui éclairent la constitution de la modernité et de notre identité intellectuelle. Elles sont toutes héritières d'une réflexion qui articule étroitement histoire des idées, littérature et philosophie, ouverte aux grands auteurs comme aux minores, et attentive aux échanges intellectuels qui constituent une République des Lettres, par delà les frontières."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Les repr sentations de la Nouvelle France et de l Am rique du Nord written by Sophie Linon-Chipon and published by Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - CTHS. This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terre amérindienne lors du premier voyage de Jacques Cartier en 1534, la Nouvelle-France est progressivement occupée de façon permanente par le royaume de France sous l'Ancien Régime. À son apogée, elle s'étend sur près de deux-tiers du continent nord-américain, du Québec à la Louisiane en passant par le Midwest. Dès le XVIe siècle, les relations d'exploration, abondamment illustrées de cartes et de dessins, deviennent la première source de connaissance de l'Amérique et de ses habitants. La curiosité des chercheurs est bientôt relayée par les encyclopédies, dictionnaires, manuels scolaires et romans historiques. Au fil du temps, les représentations se construisent, les certitudes s'affirment. Inspiré par les recherches présentées lors du 133e Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, cet ouvrage propose, par une succession de regards croisés, un éclairage nouveau sur la circulation des images de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, du XVIe siècle à nos jours."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book La vie intellectuelle aux refuges protestants written by Jens Häseler and published by Honoré Champion. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L ge d or des clubs londoniens written by Valérie Capdeville and published by Honoré Champion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etude de cette institution de la vie londonienne, lieu de convivialité masculine, privé, exclusif et élitiste, véritable école du savoir-vivre, permettant la diffusion de nouvelles valeurs, de normes de comportement et de bon goût.
