Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Acta Pekinensia Or Historical Records Of The Maillard De Turnon Legation full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Acta Pekinensia Or Historical Records Of The Maillard De Turnon Legation ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Kilian Stumpf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Acta Pekinensia, Or, Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation written by Kilian Stumpf and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004366296
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of fourteen articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The controversy started in Jesuit Asian missions where the method of accommodation, based on translation of Christianity into Asian cultural idioms, created a distinction between civic and religious customs. Civic customs were defined as those that could be included into Christianity and permitted to the new converts. However, there was no universal consensus among the various actors in these controversies as to how to establish criteria for distinguishing civility from religion. The controversy had not been resolved, but opened the way to radical religious scepticism. Contributors are: Claudia Brosseder, Michela Catto, Gita Dharampal-Frick, Pierre Antoine Fabre, Ana Carolina Hosne, Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Giuseppe Marcocci, Ovidiu Olar, Sabina Pavone, István Perczel, Nicholas Standaert, Margherita Trento, Guillermo Wilde and Ines G. Županov.
Author : Basil Guy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780729400732
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The French Image of China Before and After Voltaire written by Basil Guy and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
Author : Robert A. Maryks
Publisher : Jesuit Studies
ISBN 13 : 9789004313347
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness written by Robert A. Maryks and published by Jesuit Studies. This book was released on 2016 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries that was discussed at the first International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at Boston College's Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in June 2015. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. The collection poses a question whether there was an essential core of distinctive elements that characterized the way in which Jesuits lived their religious vocation and conducted their various works and how these ways of proceeding were lived out in the various epochs and cultures in which Jesuits worked over four and a half centuries; what changed and adapted itself to different times and situations, and what remained constant, transcending time and place, infusing the apostolic works and lives of Jesuits with the charism at the source of the Society of Jesus's foundation and development.Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Access.
Author : Franklin Perkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521830249
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Leibniz and China written by Franklin Perkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the relative indifference of his philosophical contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Spinoza and Locke? In this highly original book, Franklin Perkins examines Leibniz's voluminous writings on the subject and suggests that his interest was founded in his own philosophy: the nature of his metaphysical and theological views required him to take Chinese thought seriously.
Author : Simon Kow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317611217
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought written by Simon Kow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of three major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries: Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the Baron de Montesquieu. Unlike surveys which provide only cursory overviews of Enlightenment views of China, or individual studies of each thinker which tend to address their conceptions of China in individual chapters, this is the first book to provide in-depth comparative analyses of these seminal Enlightenment thinkers that specifically link their views on China to their political concerns. Against the backdrop especially of the Jesuit accounts of China which these philosophers read, Bayle, Leibniz, and Montesquieu interpreted imperial China in three radically divergent ways: as a tolerant, atheistic monarchy; as an exemplar of human and divine justice; and as an exceptional but nonetheless corrupt despotic state. The book thus shows how the development of political thought in the early Enlightenment was closely linked to the question of China as a positive or negative model for Europe, and argues that revisiting Bayle’s approach to China is a salutary corrective to the errors and presumptions in the thought of Leibniz and Montesquieu. The book also discusses how Chinese reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on Enlightenment writers’ different views of China as they sought to envisage how China should be remodeled.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200497
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Anthony Grafton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth. The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts in English moral values.
Author : Paul Rule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788870412093
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Acta Pekinensia Or Historical Records of the Maillard de Turnon Legation written by Paul Rule and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moral Enlightenment written by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Europe, commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment, witnessed a growing interest in China on the part of many great thinkers, inspired by reports of the Jesuit missionaries. The German philosophers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and Christian Wolff (1679-1754) were among the admirers of Chinese thought and civilization. Leibniz contribution to the Western understanding of China was mainly metaphysical and religious. His younger contemporary and friend Wolff focused on Chinese ethics, concentrating on the practical morality and political ideals of Confucius. Julia Ching and Willard G. Oxtoby present English translations of important texts related to China by Leibniz and Wolff, accompanied by two introductory essays on the philosophical and historical context. The epilogue sketches the reversal of the European opinion on China in the succeeding centuries, as reflected in the writings of Kant and Hegel.
Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030587
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context written by Jeffrey D. Burson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the causes and consequences of the Jesuit Suppression, one of the most dramatic events in eighteenth-century history.
Author : Robert Darnton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242307
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature written by Robert Darnton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself incubated Diderot’s great Encyclopedie by hiding the banned project’s papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court trumped principle in the Old Regime. Shaken by the Sepoy uprising in 1857, the British Raj undertook a vast surveillance of every aspect of Indian life, including its literary output. Years later the outrage stirred by the British partition of Bengal led the Raj to put this knowledge to use. Seeking to suppress Indian publications that it deemed seditious, the British held hearings in which literary criticism led to prison sentences. Their efforts to meld imperial power and liberal principle fed a growing Indian opposition. In Communist East Germany, censorship was a component of the party program to engineer society. Behind the unmarked office doors of Ninety Clara-Zetkin Street in East Berlin, censors developed annual plans for literature in negotiation with high party officials and prominent writers. A system so pervasive that it lodged inside the authors’ heads as self-censorship, it left visible scars in the nation’s literature. By rooting censorship in the particulars of history, Darnton's revealing study enables us to think more clearly about efforts to control expression past and present.
Author : Hongqi Li
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622014657
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (146 download)
Download or read book China and Europe written by Hongqi Li and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674048607
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)
Download or read book A New Science written by Guy G. Stroumsa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.
Author : Jeffrey D. Burson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268022204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment written by Jeffrey D. Burson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burson analyzes the history of the French Enlightenment and its relationship to the French Revolution in regards to Theological Enlightenment discourses of the time.
Author : Pierre Bayle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016139632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Pensées Diverses Sur la Comète written by Pierre Bayle and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Kilian Stumpf SJ
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004396578
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation written by Kilian Stumpf SJ and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acta Pekinensia is a Latin manuscript found in the Jesuit Roman Archives. It is a record of the papal legation to China of Charles Maillard de Tournon, from his arrival in China to his death in Macau. It was compiled by Kilian Stumpf, a German Jesuit missionary/scientist serving at the court of the Kangxi Emperor of China. Stumpf was in a privileged position to record day by day the events of this crucial episode not only in the history of Christianity in China but in Chinese-Western relations. This annotated translation provides a full documentation and an acute and lively commentary on the clash of values which resulted in the failure of the legation and the condemnation of Chinese Rites.
Author : Nicolas Malebranche Nicolas Malebranche
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Entretien D'un Philosophe Chrétien, Et D'un Philosophe Chinois, Sur L'existence Et la Nature de Dieu written by Nicolas Malebranche Nicolas Malebranche and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une personne très respectable, et digne de foi, s'il en fut jamais, m'ayant assuré que par le commerce qu'il avait eu avec les Chinois lettrés, il avait appris que leurs sentiments sur la divinité étaient tels que je vais les exposer; et m'ayant sollicité plusieurs fois de les réfuter, de manière néanmoins que je me servisse des vérités qu'ils reçoivent pour rectifier la fausse idée qu'ils ont de la nature de Dieu, je me suis cru dans une espèce d'obligation de lui obéir; espérant que peut-être mes raisons serviraient aux missionnaires qui travaillent à la conversion de ces peuples. Je ne sais si pour justifier mon obéissance, je puis ajouter, que la personne dont je parle, m'a assuré que les Chinois goûtaient fort mes sentiments; et que dans une lettre d'un père jésuite de la Chine à leurs pères de France, j'ai lu le sens de ces paroles: ne nous envoyez point ici de vos savants dans la philosophie, mais ceux qui savent les mathématiques, et les ouvrages du père Malebranche. Au reste ce n'est ni par les ordres de la personne dont je viens de parler, ni par mes soins, que l'Entretien a été imprimé. On en a obtenu l'approbation sans même que je le susse. Je ne regardais pas ce livret comme un présent digne d'être offert au public. J'avoue cependant que je me suis rendu au désir que mes amis avaient qu'il fût imprimé, et cela pour deux raisons: la première, parce que l'on m'a représenté que j'y démontrais des vérités d'une extrême conséquence, et qu'il pouvait servir à réfuter le libertinage; ceux qui le liront avec attention, jugeront de ce qui en est. La seconde raison, c'est que les copies manuscrites, s'étant répandues dans le monde, il courait un bruit que j'écrivais contre les pères jésuites. J'ai cru que mon écrit paraissant, ce bruit mal fondé se dissiperait...
