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Author : Edgar Wind
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance written by Edgar Wind and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance Enl. and Rev. Ed written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Wind (Kunsthistoriker)
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Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance written by Edgar Wind (Kunsthistoriker) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Edgar WIND
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance ... New and Enlarged Edition. [With Plates.]. written by Edgar WIND and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Wind (Historien d'art)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance written by Edgar Wind (Historien d'art) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar WIND
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. Enlarged and Revised Ed written by Edgar WIND and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar Wind
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393004755
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance written by Edgar Wind and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1968 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.
Author : Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442650745
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Christening Pagan Mysteries written by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1981-12-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism. It acknowledges that it was a feat for him to challenge the obscurantism of late medieval schooling by restoring classical studies. It recognizes that his editions of Greek and Latin authors alone fix his place in the history of scholarship. But the plainest questions about this achievement may still be asked, and the most popular texts freshly interpreted. Was his work only the expression in the ‘idiom of the Renaissance’ or a perennial Christian humanism? Or did he advance on it theoretically as well as practically? Did Erasmus contribute conceptually to the interrogation of pagan wisdom with the Christian economy? Christening Pagan Mysteries proposes that he did. Although doctrinal issues involved, this inquiry is not systematically theological. Erasmus wrote no treatise on the subject that might be so explored. A rhetorical approach, complementary to his own method, discloses his evangelical humanism through the analysis of three significant texts. The seminal dialogue Antibarbari provides the conceptual key in one of the most important humanist declarations in the history of Christian thought to the Renaissance. The Christocentric conviction it voices is then discerned through new interpretations of two other texts which christen pagan mysteries in original and important ways: the Moria and the final colloquy, ‘Epicureus,’ in which a pagan goddess and a pagan philosopher are gathered to Christ.
Author : Jean Seznec
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Survival of the Pagan Gods written by Jean Seznec and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Cameron Allen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421435284
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Mysteriously Meant written by Don Cameron Allen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674057104
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Genealogy of the Pagan Gods written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. This is volume 1 of a three-volume set of Boccaccio’s complete 15-book work. It contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world.
Author : Edgar Wind
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Pagan Mysteries in the Rennaissance written by Edgar Wind and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609259157
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance recounts the almost untold story of how the rediscovery of the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance brought a profound transformation to European culture. This highly illustrated book, available for the first time in paperback, shows that the pagan imagination existed side-by-side -- often uneasily -- with the official symbols, doctrines, and art of the Church. Godwin carefully documents how pagan themes and gods enhanced both public and private life. Palaces and villas were decorated with mythological images/ stories, music, and dramatic pageants were written about pagan themes/ and landscapes were designed to transform the soul. This was a time of great social and cultural change, when the pagan idea represented nostalgia for a classical world untroubled by the idea of sin and in no need of redemption.A stunning book with hundreds of photos that bring alive this period with all its rich conflict between Christianity and classicism.
Author : Alex Mar
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374291373
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Witches of America written by Alex Mar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witches are gathering." When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion. So Alex Mar discovers when she sets out to film a documentary and finds herself drawn deep into the world of present-day magic. Witches of America follows Mar on her immersive five-year trip into the occult, charting modern Paganism from its roots in 1950s England to its current American mecca in the San Francisco Bay Area; from a gathering of more than a thousand witches in the Illinois woods to the New Orleans branch of one of the world's most influential magical societies. Along the way she takes part in dozens of rituals and becomes involved with a wild array of characters. This sprawling magical community compels Mar to confront what she believes is possible--or hopes might be. With keen intelligence and wit, Mar illuminates the world of witchcraft while grappling in fresh and unexpected ways with the question underlying every faith: Why do we choose to believe in anything at all?--Adapted from book jacket.
Author : Anthony F. D’Elia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088549
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Pagan Virtue in a Christian World written by Anthony F. D’Elia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate? Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468), Anthony D’Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo’s court, D’Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.
Author : Pierre Chuvin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Chronicle of the Last Pagans written by Pierre Chuvin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chronicle of the Last Pagans is a history of the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire as told from the perspective of the defeated: the adherents of the mysteries, cults, and philosophies that dominated Greco-Roman culture. With a sovereign command of the diverse evidence, Pierre Chuvin portrays the complex spiritual, intellectual, and political lives of professing pagans after Christianity became the state religion. While recreating the unfolding drama of their fate--their gradual loss of power, exclusion from political, military, and civic positions, their assimilation, and finally their persecution--he records a remarkable persistence of pagan religiosity and illustrates the fruitful interaction between Christianity and paganism. The author points to the implications of this late paganism for subsequent developments in the Byzantine Empire and the West. Chuvin's compelling account of an often forgotten world of pagan culture rescues an important aspect of our spiritual heritage and provides new understanding of Late Antiquity.
Author : Anna-Maria Hartmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192534742
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650 written by Anna-Maria Hartmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their European counterparts. This volume focuses on the English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647 by Stephen Batman, Abraham Fraunce, Francis Bacon, Henry Reynolds, and Alexander Ross: it places their texts into a wider, European context to reveal their unique English take on the genre and also unfolds the significant role myth played in the broader culture of the period, influencing not only literary life, natural philosophy and poetics, but also religious conflicts and Civil War politics. In doing so it demonstrates, for the first time, the considerable explanatory value classical mythology holds for the study of the English Renaissance and its literary culture in particular, and how early modern England answered a question we still find fascinating today: what is myth?
