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The Last Descendant of Aeneas

Author : Marie Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300054880
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book The Last Descendant of Aeneas written by Marie Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the eve of the modern era, rulers of Western empires inspired hero worship by proclaiming their divine origins. In this fascinating original study, Marie Tanner presents the history of the emperor's mythic image and its continuing influence on Western political thought. She shows that these pretensions to divinity were based on the Trojan legend and the myth of Rome as developed in Vergil's Aeneid and that later Christian emperors expanded these claims by tracing their lineage not only to the pagan gods but also to the priest-kings of the Old Testament. Through this amalgam of heritages each successive Holy Roman emperor proclaimed that he was the last descendant of Aeneas, destined to yield the terrestrial rule of Rome to Christ and thereby inaugurate millennial peace. By examining a wide range of literary, artistic, and historical sources plus a corpus of new illustrations, Tanner discovers remarkable chains of evidence for this process, one that culminates with the Renaissance Hapsburgs who imbued the holiest symbols of the faith with dynastic meaning as they attempted to consolidate all priestly and secular powers in their grip. On these foundations Philip II of Spain, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the first monarch to rule the four known continents, created a new concept of absolute monarchy that shaped the principles of modern statecraft and determined the dominant form of government in Europe for the next two centuries.

Abraham as a Spiritual Ancestor

Author : Israel Kamudzandu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004181644
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Abraham as a Spiritual Ancestor written by Israel Kamudzandu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the ideology of the Augustan era of constructing ancestors, this book is about Paul's creative construction of Abraham as a spiritual ancestor of "all" people who have the faith of Abraham and Sarah. The book breaks new accademic grounds on the value of ancestors in a 21st century global Christian world.

Cervantes' Epic Novel

Author : Michael Armstrong-Roche
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691158
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Cervantes' Epic Novel written by Michael Armstrong-Roche and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of readers and writers alike and the later novel is now virtually forgotten except by specialists. This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. At the same time it seeks to illuminate how such a lofty and solemn ambition could coexist with Cervantes evident urge to delight. Grounded in the novel's multiple contexts - literature, history and politics, philosophy and theology - and in close reading of the text, Michael Armstrong-Roche aims to reshape our understanding of Persiles within the history of prose fiction and to take part in the ongoing conversation about the relationship between literary and non-literary cultural forms. Ultimately he reveals how Cervantes recast the prose epic, expanding it in new directions to accommodate the great epic themes - politics, love, and religion - to the most urgent concerns of his day.

Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V

Author : Mary Tiffany Ferer
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836998
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V written by Mary Tiffany Ferer and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Music and Ceremony' reconstructs musical life at the court of Charles V, examining the compositions which emanated from the court, the ordinances which prescribed ritual and ceremony, and the Emperor's prestigious chapel which reflected his power and influence.

Cultural Genealogy

Author : Raphael Falco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317156544
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Genealogy written by Raphael Falco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. The core of this myth is the widespread belief that a numinous charismatic power can be passed down unchanged, and in concrete forms, from earlier eras. Raphael Falco shows that such a process of descent is an impossible illusion in a knowledge-based culture. Anachronistic adoption of past values can only occur when these values are adapted and assimilated to the target culture. Without such transcultural adaptation, ancient values would appear as alien artifacts rather than as eternal truths. Scholars have long acknowledged the Renaissance borrowings from classical antiquity, but most studies of translatio studii or translatio imperii tacitly accept the early modern myth that there was a genuine translation of Greek and Roman cultural values from the ancient world to the "modern." But as Falco demonstrates, this is patently not the case. The mastering of ancient languages and the rediscovery of lost texts has masked the fact that surprisingly little of ancient religious, ethical, or political ideology was retained — so little that it is crucial to ask why these myths of transcultural descent have not been recognized and interrogated. Through examples ranging from Petrarch to Columbus, Maffeo Vegio to the Habsburgs, Falco shows how the new techne of systematic genealogy facilitated the process of "remythicizing" the ancient authorities, utterly transforming Greek and Roman values and reforging them into the mold of contemporary needs. Chiefly a study of intellectual culture, Cultural Genealogy has ramifications reaching into all levels of society, both early modern and later.

Story of Aeneas

Author : Michael Clarke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336834790X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Story of Aeneas written by Michael Clarke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Abraham Our Father

Author : Israel Kamudzandu
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 0800698177
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Our Father written by Israel Kamudzandu and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel Kamudzandu explores the legacy of how the Shona found in the figure of Abraham himself a potent resource for cultural resistance, and makes intriguing comparisons with the ways the apostle Paul used the same figure in his interaction with the ancestry of Aeneas in imperial myths of the destiny of the Roman people. The result is a groundbreaking study that combines the best tradition-historical insights with postcolonial-critical acumen. Kamudzandu offers at last a model of multi-cultural Christianity forged in the experience of postcolonial Zimbabwe.

The Tempest and Its Travels

Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890665
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Tempest and Its Travels written by Peter Hulme and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tempest and its Travels offers a new map of the play by means of an innovative collection of historical, critical, and creative texts and images.

Story of Aeneas

Author : Michael Clarke
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Story of Aeneas written by Michael Clarke and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1898 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Last Trojan Hero

Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735063
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Last Trojan Hero written by Philip Hardie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism. In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.

Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity

Author : Crystal Anne Chemris
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663414
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity written by Crystal Anne Chemris and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Walter Benjamin's notion of constellation, this book draws on theories of Latin American modernity to investigate the Spanish literary Baroque and its repetitions as a historical-cultural predicament in Latin American colonial and modern texts. Inca Garcilaso, Borges, Carpentier, Rulfo, Darío and a range of Latin American "Post-Symbolist" poets (Agustini, Pizarnik, Sosa, Lienlaf and Huinao) are juxtaposed with the Lazarillo, the Quijote, Fuenteovejuna and Góngora's Soledades to produce original readings on topics of violence, rape, frustrated pilgrimage, and the truncated ambitions of colonized peoples and confessional minorities. In turn, Benjamin is juxtaposed with Mallarmé to recast the aesthetic dynamics of modernity in political terms, in order to understand the Baroque within a more broadly historicized concept of the avant-garde. Generous in scope, this book addresses the community of Spanish and Latin American criticism as well as emerging and pressing theoretical concerns within the field of comparative literature.

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838837
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624 written by Peter C. Mancall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, the eighteen essays in this volume provide a fresh and much-needed perspective on the wider context of the encounter between the inhabitants of precolonial Virginia and the English. This collection offers an interdisciplinary consideration of developments in Native America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Chesapeake, highlighting the mosaic of regions and influences that formed the context and impetus for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607. The volume reflects an understanding of Jamestown not as the birthplace of democracy in America but as the creation of a European outpost in a neighborhood that included Africans, Native Americans, and other Europeans. With contributions from both prominent and rising scholars, this volume offers far-ranging and compelling studies of peoples, texts, places, and conditions that influenced the making of New World societies. As Jamestown marks its four-hundredth anniversary, this collection provides provocative material for teaching and launching new research. Contributors: Philip P. Boucher, University of Alabama, Huntsville Peter Cook, Nipissing University J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of Sydney Joseph Hall, Bates College Linda Heywood, Boston University James Horn, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation E. Ann McDougall, University of Alberta Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University David Northrup, Boston College Marcy Norton, The George Washington University James D. Rice, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania David Harris Sacks, Reed College Benjamin Schmidt, University of Washington Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison John Thornton, Boston University

The Trojans and Their Neighbours

Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415349550
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Trojans and Their Neighbours written by Trevor Bryce and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this publication - the first to focus on Troy's neighbours and contemporaries - Trevor Bryce unearths the secrets of this ancient city. Fully illustrated with maps, charts and photographs, he explores Troy's involvement in the Iliad.

Mary I

Author : S. Duncan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137047909
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Mary I written by S. Duncan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen.

A House Divided

Author : Andrew L. Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183566
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A House Divided written by Andrew L. Thomas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersection between religious belief, dynastic ambitions, and late Renaissance court culture within the main branches of Germany's most storied ruling house, the Wittelsbach dynasty. Their influence touched many shores from the "coast" of Bohemia to Boston.

Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019162277X
Total Pages : 1315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by the torments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future for his patron Augustus, but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught up in the fates of others. Frederick Ahl's new translation echoes the Virgilian hexameter in a thrillingly accurate and engaging style. An Introduction by Elaine Fantham, and Ahl's comprehensive notes and invaluable indexed glossary complement the translation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.