Widely recognized by contemporaries as the most powerful theologian of his generation, Jean Gerson (1363-1429) dominated the stage of western Europe during a time of plague, fratricidal war, and religious schism. Yet modern scholarship has struggled to define Gerson's place in history, even as it searches for a compelling narrative to tell the story of his era. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Gerson as a man of letters actively managing the publication of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. More broadly, Hobbins casts Gerson as a mirror of the complex cultural and intellectual shifts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In contrast to earlier theologians, Gerson took a more humanist approach to reading and to authorship. He distributed his works, both Latin and French, to a more diverse medieval public. And he succeeded in reaching a truly international audience of readers within his lifetime. Through such efforts, Gerson effectively embodies the aspirations of a generation of writers and intellectuals. Removed from the narrow confines of late scholastic theology and placed into a broad interdisciplinary context, his writings open a window onto the fascinating landscape of fifteenth-century Europe. The picture of late medieval culture that emerges from this study offers neither a specter of decaying scholasticism nor a triumphalist narrative of budding humanism and reform. Instead, Hobbins describes a period of creative and dynamic growth, when new attitudes toward writing and debate demanded and eventually produced new technologies of the written word.
Автор: Edward R. Drott Название: Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan ISBN: 0824851501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824851507 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 50160.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Scholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina . Many of these ""sacred elders"" came to be featured in premodern theater, most prominently in Noh. In the closing decades of the twentieth-century, as the number of Japan's senior citizens climbed steadily, the sacred elder of premodern myth became a subject of renewed interest and was seen by some as evidence that the elderly in Japan had once been accorded a level of respect unknown in recent times. In Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan, Edward R. Drott charts the shifting sets of meanings ascribed to old age in medieval Japan, tracing the processes by which the aged body was transformed into a symbol of otherworldly power and the cultural, political, and religious circumstances that inspired its reimagination.Drott examines how the aged body was used to conceptualize forms of difference and to convey religious meanings in a variety of texts: official chronicles, literary works, Buddhist legends and didactic tales. In early Japan, old age was most commonly seen as a mark of negative distinction, one that represented the ugliness, barrenness, and pollution against which the imperial court sought to define itself. From the late-Heian period, however, certain Buddhist authors seized upon the aged body as a symbolic medium though which to challenge traditional dichotomies between center and margin, high and low, and purity and defilement, crafting narratives that associated aged saints and avatars with the cults, lineages, sacred sites, or religious practices these authors sought to promote.Contributing to a burgeoning literature on religion and the body, Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan applies approaches developed in gender studies to ""denaturalize"" old age as a matter of representation, identity, and performance. By tracking the ideological uses of old age in premodern Japan, this work breaks new ground, revealing the role of religion in the construction of generational categories and the ways in which religious ideas and practices can serve not only to naturalize, but also challenge ""common sense"" about the body.
Автор: Edmund Herzig, Sarah Stewart Название: The Age of the Seljuqs ISBN: 1780769474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780769479 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 63360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book further explores key topics relating to the innovative Seljuq era, including: conflicted Sunni-Shi`a relations between the Sunni Seljuq empire and Ismaili Fatimid caliphate; art, culture and ceramics; and poetry and architecture.
Автор: Nico Roymans, Stijn Heeren, Wim De Clercq Название: Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Late Roman Empire: Beyond Transformation or Decline ISBN: 9462983607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462983601 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 187270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external `barbarian` groups in the northwest frontiers of the empire during the fourth and fifth centuries.
Автор: Kunt Название: Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age ISBN: 1138836257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138836259 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 142910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (r.1520-1566) dominated the eastern Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds - and the imagination of his contemporaries - very much as his fellow sovereigns Charles V, Francis I and Henry VIII in the west. He greatly expanded the Ottoman empire, capturing Rhodes, Belgrade, Hungary, the Red Sea coast of Arabia, and even besieging Vienna. Patron and legislator as well as conqueror, he stamped his name on an age. These specially-commissioned essays by leading experts examine Suleyman's reign in its wider political and diplomatic context, both Ottoman and European.
The contributors are: Peter Burke; Geza David; Suraiaya Faroqhi; Peter Holt; Colin Imber; Salih Uzbaran; Metin Kunt; Christine Woodhead; and Ann Williams.
Автор: Metin Cosgel, Bogac Ergene Название: The Economics of Ottoman Justice: Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts ISBN: 1316610276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316610275 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By offering both an economic and legal analysis of legal practice in a sharia court in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book highlights how different gender, religious, and socioeconomic groups participated in legal practice and interacted with other groups.
Автор: Mustafa Metin Название: The Ottoman Renaissance: A Reconsideration of Early Ottoman Art, 1413-1575 ISBN: 1682060233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682060230 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 28590.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book re-evaluates Ottoman art of the early modern period within the Renaissance paradigm. It argues that the Ottomans indeed had a Renaissance at the same time as the Europeans of the West and that, whilst sharing certain characteristics, the Ottomans experience a Renaissance distinct to their European counterparts. In addition to the influences of classical Greece and Rome. Metin Mustafa argues that the Ottomans drew on their Eastern past -- their Steppe heritage, Islamic, Timurid, and Persian influences thus marking a significant divergence from the West. By casting the net wide and clearly demonstrating the vast range of traditions which inspired the grand cultural phenomenon of the early modern Ottoman period. He uniquely situats the Ottoman Renaissance in a more meaningful hisotircal context. East and West were fundamental to the Ottoman mindset and this is what is emphasised in this book.
Автор: Emanuel Plopeanu, Gabriel Stelian Manea, Metin Omer Название: The Empire. Between dispute and nostalgia ISBN: 3631840888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631840887 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 66760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The book examines how different imperial models of diplomacy, administration, economics, and cultural and religious policies were challenged or, on the contrary, defended during and after the collapse of the Empires that promoted them. It provides an overview from multiple perspectives of the imperial phenomenon in all its dimensions, and the studies published in this volume address broad chronological segments and geographical areas relevant to the imperial idea.
Автор: Hakkarainen Heidi Название: Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna ISBN: 1789202736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789202731 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 113250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Though long associated with a small group of coffeehouse elites around the turn of the twentieth century, Viennese “modernist” culture had roots that extended much earlier, and beyond the rarefied sphere of high culture. In Comical Modernity, Heidi Hakkarainen looks at Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century, a period of dramatic urban renewal during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a mainstay of humorous magazines, books, and other publications aimed at middle-class audiences. Hakkarainen shows how humor provided a widely accessible means of negotiating an era of radical change, allowing a broader understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.
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