Download or read book La Renaissance et la nuit written by Daniel Ménager and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La nuit n’a pas la faveur des historiens. Les spécialistes de la Renaissance nous assurent qu’elle est le moment de tous les dangers, pour le corps et pour l’âme, alors tourmentés par le diable et les rêves impurs. L’enquête menée par Daniel Ménager dans la culture littéraire des élites parvient à des résultats fort différents. A la suite d’Orphée et bien avant les romantiques, les poètes de la Renaissance y ont trouvé le temps de l’apaisement. Les astronomes, comme Galilée, ont attendu impatiemment que la vaste nuit allumât étoiles et planètes. Quant aux mystiques, ils ont cherché des nuits entières les voies obscures du désir de Dieu. Il n’en fallait pas plus pour que les livres d’emblèmes célèbrent, avec l’artifice de la concision, les vertus du travail nocturne. Si la nuit est normalement destinée au sommeil, le héros de cet ouvrage, Don Quichotte de la Mancha, celui qui joue ses rêves les yeux ouverts, vient nous sommer de sacrifier le repos au devoir de vigilance. La Renaissance et la nuit écrit l’histoire d’une conception; ses heures d’élection incitent aussi à la rêverie en compagnie de Pétrarque, Sannazar, Michel-Ange, Le Tasse, Ronsard, Belleau, Shakespeare, Cervantès et de beaucoup d’autres, dont quelques peintres qui, autrement que les écrivains, ont donné à voir la nuit.
Download or read book Renaissance Et R forme written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LES YEUX DE LA NUIT written by Élie Fleurant and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems are written with a lot of emotion and passion. Some of them talk about relationships, religions, one's beliefs, and most especially love. The author wants his word to be read by people who feel the same emotions he had when he wrote his poetry.
Download or read book Evening s Empire written by Craig Koslofsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe. He shows how princes, courtiers, burghers and common people 'nocturnalized' political expression, the public sphere and the use of daily time. Fear of the night was now mingled with improved opportunities for labour and leisure: the modern night was beginning to assume its characteristic shape. Evening's Empire takes the evocative history of the night into early modern politics, culture and society, revealing its importance to key themes from witchcraft, piety, and gender to colonization, race, and the Enlightenment.
Download or read book Aloysius Bertrand s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem written by Valentina Gosetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the prose poem. By placing Bertrand back in his original context, adopting a comparative approach and engaging with recent critical work on the collection, Valentina Gosetti proposes a substantial reassessment of Gaspard de la Nuit and promotes a new understanding of Bertrand in his own terms, rather than those of his successors. Through his playful and ironic reinterpretation of Romantic clichés, and his overt defiance of the boundaries of poetry and beauty, Bertrand emerges as a fascinating figure in his own right. This book is one of the first full-length studies of Bertrand’s work, and it will be of particular interest to specialists of the nineteenth century and of provincial literature, and to students of nineteenth-century poetry or the fantastic.
Download or read book The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance written by Katherine Crawford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.
Download or read book Renaissance Dream Cultures written by Alessandro Arcangeli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation. The chapters examine a variety of oneiric experiences, since distinctions such as that between dreams and visions are themselves culturally specific and variable. Several developments of the period are relevant and consequently considered, from the introduction of the printing press and the humanist rediscovery of ancient texts to the religious reforms and the cultural encounters at the time of the first globalisation. At the centre of the narrative is the exceptional case of Girolamo Cardano, heterodox physician, mathematician, astrologer, autobiographer, dreamer and key dream theorist of the epoch. The Italian peninsula produced the first printed editions of many classical and medieval treatises, and, particularly between the 1560s and the 1610s, was also especially active in the writing of texts, both Latin and vernacular, fascinated by the oneiric experience and investigating it. Given the role of the visual in dreaming, images are also analysed. This book will be a recommended reading for scholars, students and non-specialist readers of cultural history, Renaissance studies and dream cultures.
Download or read book La pluie n a pas cess de la nuit written by Dominique Solamens and published by Bouquineo. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Je marchais vers la mer, vers l’enfant. Il faisait noir. Le long de la voie ferrée, le visage en sang, les mains tendues en avant, crispées. Je râlais aussi, souffle ténu et aigre d’une flûte qu’on étrangle. Je me disais, au bout de ce chemin, de cette voie ferrée, il y a la mer... Je m’y jetterai, je me laverai de tout ce sang qui dégouline sur ma figure et dans mon cou, dans mon dos. Et peut-être qu’il m’attendra sur la plage, avec son petit bonnet passe-montagne et son duffle-coat marine. » Dominique Solamens
Download or read book Les Sept Passages written by Karuna Mayi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROMAN. Sept récits qui nous entraînent à un moment décisif de la vie de sept femmes de différentes générations, nationalités, pays, qui vont chacune vivre un évènement exceptionnel, une révélation spirituelle majeure qui changera leurs vies à tout jamais. Les personnages nous font voyager en Grèce, en France, au Burkina Faso,au Nouveau Mexique, à Londres et en Inde.Chacun de ces sept récits constitue une histoire inoubliable.www.faithpeaceandculture.com/fr
Download or read book Initiation written by Bleeker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1965-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /C. J. Bleeker -- L'initiation et le monde moderne /M. Eliade -- Some Introductory Remarks on the Significance of Initiation /C. J. Bleeker -- Terminologie bambara concernant l'initiation /D. Zahan -- Die Sprache von Zuyua als Initiationsmittel /Günter Lanczkowski -- The Significance of Time in some Ancient Initiatory Rituals /S. G. F. Brandon -- Initiation in Ancient Egypt /C. J. Bleeker -- Voraussetzungen der Einweihung in Eleusis /K. Kerényi -- "Le Secret Central de l'initiation aux mysteres d'Eleusis” /Maurice Mehauden -- Initiation in later Hinduism according to Tantric Texts /D. J. Hoens -- Dīkṣā /A. Basu -- Informal Initiation Among Hindus and Moslems /Henry H. Presler -- Initiation in the Shugendo: the Passage through the Ten States of Existence /Carmen Blacker -- L'initiation mazdéenne /J. Duchesne-Guillemin -- Pour une Etude de l'initiation dans l'ancien Israel /André Caquot -- Qumran und die Zwölf /David Flusser -- Initiation et mystère dans Joseph et Aséneth /Marc Philonenko -- Initiation, Mystères, gnose /U. Bianchi -- New Testament Baptism. An External or Internal Rite? /R. A. Barclay -- John the Baptist in Christianized Gnosticism /Leander E. Keck -- Conditions of Membership of the Islamic Community /W. Montgomery Watt -- The Initiation Ceremony of the Bektashis /Helmer Ringgren -- La signification psychologique de l'ésotérisme /Edmond Rochedieu -- Initiation and the Paradox of Power: a Sociological Approach /E. M. Mendelson -- Initiation et histoire /A. Brelich -- Religion als Einweihung /Anton Antweiler -- Einweihung und spirituelle Nachfolge /Matthias Vereno -- Das Fasten als Initiationsritus /Peter Gerlitz -- Some Reflections on the Rites of Initiation /Geo Widengren.
Download or read book The Massacre in History written by Mark Levene and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six papers from a March 1995 conference in Warwick, England, and seven additional commissioned essays span from the 11th century to the early 1990s and from western Europe to China. The historian authors explore such issues as what a massacre is, when and why it happens, cultural and political frameworks, how human societies respond, social and economic repercussions, and whether they are catalysts for change. They suggest that the massacre is often central to the course of human development and societal change. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Witchcraft Demonology and Confession in Early Modern France written by Virginia Krause and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession's place at the heart of French demonology. Drawing on evidence from published treatises, the writings of skeptics such as Montaigne, and the documents from a witchcraft trial, Virginia Krause shows how demonologists erected their science of demons on the confessed experiences of would-be witches.
Download or read book The French Civil Wars 1562 1598 written by R. J. Knecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Wars of Religion tore the country apart for almost fifty years. They were also part of the wider religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants which raged across Europe during the 16th century. This new study, by a major authority on French history, explores the impact of these wars and sets them in their full European context.
Download or read book Princes and Princely Culture 1450 1650 Volume 1 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains thirteen essays on European princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650. Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, and even forms of devotional practice – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This volume, the first of two concentrating on the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, has essays on selected courts north of the Alps and the Pyrenees: the court of Burgundy under the Valois dukes, that of France under Catherine de Médicis and of Henry IV, that of Scotland under Jameses III, IV, V, VI and of Mary, Queen of Scots, that of Margaret of Austria at Mechelen, of Scandinavia, of Heidelberg under Frederick the Victorious and Philip the Upright, and that of Maximilian I. Contributors include: Gayle K. Brunelle, Dagmar Eichberger, Annette Finley-Croswhite, Martin Gosman, Margriet Hoogvliet, Michael Lynch, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Olaf Mörke, Jan-Dirk Müller, Rita Schlusemann, Alan Swanson, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Janet Hadley Williams.
Download or read book Le hasard des rencontres written by Joëlle Pétillot and published by Bouquineo. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entre un quinqua ronchon à l'idée de prendre un train de nuit et un prince du désert, peu de lien en apparence, sinon un hasard virevoltant d’un être à l’autre, croisant des vies comme il sied à un royal chef d’orchestre, selon son bon plaisir. Ainsi un piano et un papillon, une femme près d'accoucher et un marginal nocturne, un jardinier écrivant une lettre dans la terre et une artiste peintre vont-ils se rencontrer. Ce hasard gros de tous les possibles les pose en face d’un être important. Après cela rien n'est plus pareil : cet autre, étranger d’hier, va être aimé, attendu, aidé... ou détesté. Et quand une ville entière posée sur le désert reçoit une leçon de vie de la part d’un seul, l’évidence s’impose : ce hasard-là, comme tous les autres, relève d’une féérie. Magie ordinaire offerte, qui fait que l’humain croisé apprendra quelque chose à celui qui va le trouver. Surtout sur lui-même.
Download or read book Book Bulletin written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
