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Book Synopsis The Portable Renaissance Reader by : James Bruce Ross
Download or read book The Portable Renaissance Reader written by James Bruce Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-08-25 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin.
Book Synopsis The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by : David L. Lewis
Download or read book The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader written by David L. Lewis and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1994 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars.
Book Synopsis The Renaissance Reader by : Kenneth J. Atchity
Download or read book The Renaissance Reader written by Kenneth J. Atchity and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997-08-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the transition between the Middle Ages and modern times, the Renaissance is perhaps the most distinguished age since that of Classic Greece. Moreover, the consciousness of our time was largely formed by those who were given freedom to express themselves by the rebirth of the arts and sciences of the Renaissance. The Renaissance Reader allows the men and women of that turbulent time of change to speak in their own voices--sane and insane, brilliant and mundane, inspired and possessed, oblivious and decisive. Organized chronologically and covering the fourteenth through the seventieth centuries, the book provides readers with the literary and artist; social, religious, and political; and scientific and philosophic texts that shaped Renaissance thinking from the death of Dante in 1321 to the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare in 1616. Selections include such familiar texts as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The book also contains works by many less familiar writers, including such prominent Renaissance women as Christine de Pizan, Isabella d'Este, and Catherine Zell. With the inclusion of the works of such brilliant artists as Giotto, de Vinci, Durer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Brueghel, and others, The Renaissance Reader brings the age to life with all its vibrance and excitement.
Book Synopsis Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500 by : John Raymond Shinners
Download or read book Medieval Popular Religion, 1000-1500 written by John Raymond Shinners and published by Readings in Medieval Civilizat. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition is a marvelous teaching tool and true feast for the intellectually curious. - Daniel Bornstein, Texas A&M University
Book Synopsis The Portable Renaissance Reader by : James Bruce Ross
Download or read book The Portable Renaissance Reader written by James Bruce Ross and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Portable Renaissance Reader, Edited, and with an Introd., by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin by : James Bruce Ross (1902- Ed)
Download or read book The Portable Renaissance Reader, Edited, and with an Introd., by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin written by James Bruce Ross (1902- Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by : David Levering Lewis
Download or read book The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader written by David Levering Lewis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume—organized chronologically—includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.
Book Synopsis The Portable Renaissance Reader by : James Bruce Ross
Download or read book The Portable Renaissance Reader written by James Bruce Ross and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Medieval & Early Modern World by : Merry E. Wiesner
Download or read book The Medieval & Early Modern World written by Merry E. Wiesner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural life flowered from the mid-fifteenth century in the Italian city-states, many of which profited from the new trading opportunities that growing world networks permitted. Contact among regions of the world expanded, bringing new ideas and prompting an appreciation of arts and letters-not only of the present but of the past. In Italy this cultural flowering was known at first as the renaissance of arts and letters, soon shortened to just "Renaissance" to accommodate cultural ingredients that came from beyond Europe. Italian and northern European cultural expansion benefited from similar retrieval of ancient knowledge in the Islamic world and East Asia. Like the Italians, the Chinese had grown even wealthier from the extensive links to global commerce provided by the Mongol Empire, but once thrown off, their cultural life flourished under the Ming. Cultural knowledge and the arts spread across Asia and into Europe. As part of state-building, the Ming nourished commerce but also rejected the cosmopolitan Buddhist legacy that arrived from central and south Asia. To strengthen dynastic Chinese rule, the Ming challenged Buddhism with a revival of age-old concern for the Confucian values that had languished under the Mongols. Foremost among these new Confucians was Wu Yube, so expert in his teachings that he attracted a wide coterie of disciples. In India, Nanak, an educated employee of an Afghan prince, sparked the founding of Sikhism. A similar search for reviving fundamental religious values occurred in Europe, where Martin Luther challenged the practices of the Catholic church, ushering in Protestantism. Religious reform and resistance to it were closely connected to the state-building efforts of enterprising monarchs such as Henry VIII of England. India likewise experienced a fervent movement to revive pure, ancient religious practices. Fourteenth and fifteenth century global trade and long-distance ventures such as those made by the Ming and then by the Portuguese further inspired and advanced these worldwide cultural and political developments. A brisk Indian Ocean trade flourished. Economic change ensued with the arrival of New World silver on the global market. The advance of printing not only furthered the cause of religious reform and state-building globally; it also helped globalize knowledge and intellectual experimentation. People of great power and those of more limited means came to live their lives differently because of this expanding web of shared knowledge and trade. Cities flourished, the enslavement of native Americans came to replace their use as human sacrifices, and diseases migrated at a more rapid pace and greater devastation than perhaps ever before.
Book Synopsis The Portable Medieval Reader by : Various
Download or read book The Portable Medieval Reader written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-05-26 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars—that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window."
Book Synopsis The Portable Enlightenment Reader by : Various
Download or read book The Portable Enlightenment Reader written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
Book Synopsis With Knowledge and Virtue by : Themi H. Demas PhD
Download or read book With Knowledge and Virtue written by Themi H. Demas PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology continues to advance and so do our problems. Two of our biggest threats are global warming and nuclear war, and we must eliminate these threats. Fortunately, cost-effective technology exists to reduce global warming, but we must be smart enough to use it. The author offers a detailed proposal for combating climate change, building a more robust economy by creating jobs, eliminating oil imports, stabilizing energy prices, and cutting back on pollution and its detrimental effects on societyall by using clean, renewable energy. He also tackles reducing the threat of nuclear war, which will require us to tame the savageness of man. This must be done via international institutions, cooperation, and a commitment to shared values. Tackle two of the worlds greatest problemsglobal warming and the threat of nuclear warand consider how to address overpopulation, world hunger, and other problems along the way With Knowledge and Virtue.
Book Synopsis The Portable Emerson by : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Download or read book The Portable Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1981-08-27 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature, in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits, complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.
Book Synopsis The Portable Thomas Jefferson by : Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book The Portable Thomas Jefferson written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-10-27 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.
Book Synopsis The Portable William Blake by : William Blake
Download or read book The Portable William Blake written by William Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-02-24 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.
Book Synopsis The Portable Oscar Wilde by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book The Portable Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1981-07-30 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the following works: Novels—The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays—Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings—De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.
Book Synopsis The Portable Nietzsche by : Friedrich Nietzsche
Download or read book The Portable Nietzsche written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-01-27 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.” —Newsweek
