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Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the multi- and interdisciplinary approach, with papers on a broad range of historical times, places, and subjects. While each essay makes a valuable and original contribution to its relevant field(s), the collection as a whole is an attempt to probe more general questions and issues concerning the productive outcomes of cultural encounters throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The collection is divided into three sections organised thematically and chronologically. The first, ‘Encounters with the Past,’ focuses on the r...
Twilight of the Godlings
A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain's small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings.
Provenance and Possession
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial "opening up" of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this book, K.J.P. Lowe challenges such an assumption, showing that Italians of this era cared more about the possession than the provenance of their newly acquired global goods. With three detailed case st...
The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature
Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "picturing" in early modern English literature. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive and varied picture of the relationship between visual and verbal in the early modern period, while also contributing to the understanding of the literary context in which Shakespeare wrote. Using different methodological approaches and taking into account a great variety of texts, including Elizabethan sonnet sequences, metaphysical poetry, famous as well as anonymous plays, and court masques, the book opens new p...
From Influence to Inhabitation
This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Founded in the mid-1990s, the discipline of astrobiology combines the search for extraterrestrial life with the study of terrestrial biology – especially its origins, its evolution and its presence in extreme environments. This book offers a history of astrobiology's attempts to understand the nature of life in a larger cosmological context. Specifically, it describes the shift of early modern cosmology from a...
Die Anfänge des letzten Zarentums
Im Laufe des 15. Jahrhunderts verwandelte sich das lose Konglomerat der russischen Teilfürstentümer schrittweise in eine christliche Autokratie mit dem Moskauer Großfürsten und späteren Zaren an der Spitze. Eine entscheidende Rolle in der Legitimation des entstehenden Zarentums spielten Endzeiterwartungen. Sie hingen mit dem Glauben an das Ende der Welt im Jahre 1492 zusammen. Das ausgebliebene Jüngste Gericht wurde dabei zum entscheidenden Impuls, Moskau erstmalig zum neuen Konstantinopel zu proklamieren. Im Fokus dieser komparativen Arbeit stehen die ersten russischen politisch-eschatologischen Herrschaftsvorstellungen, die an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit entworfen wurden. Es wird gezeig...
The Renaissance on the Road
This Element examines the material and social mechanisms that enacted mobility in the Renaissance and offers a new way to understand the period's dynamism, creativity, and conflict. It highlights the experiences of a wide range of mobile populations, paying particular attention to the concrete, practical dimensions of moving around at this time.
Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the multi- and interdisciplinary approach, with papers on a broad range of historical times, places, and subjects. While each essay makes a valuable and original contribution to its relevant field(s), the collection as a whole is an attempt to probe more general questions and issues concerning the productive outcomes of cultural encounters throughout the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods. The collection is divided into three sections organised thematically and chronologically. The first, ‘Encounters with the Past,’ focuses on the r...
The Kid
In blazing heat, a stolen Mini hurtles towards Sydney. Inside, three unstable teenagers from the country Snake, Aspro and Dean plan a future that will begin when they collect Aspro's accident compo from the Department.
