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Author | : Rémi Brague |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226070773 |
Download The Wisdom of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better life. How this view of the world came to be, and how we lost it (or turned away from it) on the way to becoming modern, make for a fascinating story, told in a highly accessible manner by Rémi Brague in this wide-ranging cultural history. Before the Greeks, people thought human action was required to maintain the order of the universe and so conducted rituals and sacrifices to renew and restore it. But beginning with the Hellenic Age, the universe came to be seen as existing quite apart from human action and possessing, therefore, a kind of wisdom that humanity did not. Wearing his remarkable erudition lightly, Brague traces the many ways this universal wisdom has been interpreted over the centuries, from the time of ancient Egypt to the modern era. Socratic and Muslim philosophers, Christian theologians and Jewish Kabbalists all believed that questions about the workings of the world and the meaning of life were closely intertwined and that an understanding of cosmology was crucial to making sense of human ethics. Exploring the fate of this concept in the modern day, Brague shows how modernity stripped the universe of its sacred and philosophical wisdom, transforming it into an ethically indifferent entity that no longer serves as a model for human morality. Encyclopedic and yet intimate, The Wisdom of the World offers the best sort of history: broad, learned, and completely compelling. Brague opens a window onto systems of thought radically different from our own.
Author | : H. David Brumble |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1998-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136797386 |
Download Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth and legend. Each entry includes a brief account of the myth, with reference to the Greek and Latin sources. The entry then discusses how Medieval and Renaissance commentators interpreted the myth, and how poets, dramatists, and artists employed the allegory in their art. Each entry includes a bibliography and the volume concludes with appendices and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Author | : Sabine Baring-Gould |
Publisher | : London : Rivingtons |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
Download Curious Myths of the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Samuel Bannister Harding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Middle Ages |
ISBN | : |
Download The Story of the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : H. A. Guerber |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 048627862X |
Download Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Medieval romance and other kinds of myth and legend from the Middle Ages offer a heady mix of Christian and pagan elements, reflecting both the passing of an ancient culture and the arrival of a new order. Not purely legend, not really history, these wonderful stories often involve pagan heroes reshaped to fit tales of knighthood and Christian endeavor. 36 illustrations.
Author | : Jesse Gellrich |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501740725 |
Download The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.
Author | : Hélène Adeline Guerber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
Download Legends of the Middle Ages, Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : H. A. Guerber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Markus Stock |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1442644664 |
Download Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the Middle Ages, the life story of Alexander the Great was a well-traveled tale. Known in numerous versions, many of them derived from the ancient Greek Alexander Romance, it was told and re-told throughout Europe, India, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The essays collected in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages examine these remarkable legends not merely as stories of conquest and discovery, but also as representations of otherness, migration, translation, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora. Alongside studies of the Alexander legend in medieval and early modern Latin, English, French, German, and Persian, Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages breaks new ground by examining rarer topics such as Hebrew Alexander romances, Coptic and Arabic Alexander materials, and early modern Malay versions of the Alexander legend. Brought together in this wide-ranging collection, these essays testify to the enduring fascination and transcultural adaptability of medieval stories about the extraordinary Macedonian leader.
Author | : Rémi Brague |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 022679721X |
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This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, RémiBrague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers than on their relationships with one another. Their disparate philosophical worlds, Brague shows, were grounded in different models of revelation that engendered divergent interpretations of the ancient Greek sources they held in common. So, despite striking similarities in their solutions for the philosophical problems they all faced, intellectuals in each theological tradition often viewed the others’ ideas with skepticism, if not disdain. Brague’s portrayal of this misunderstood age brings to life not only its philosophical and theological nuances, but also lessons for our own time.