Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation.
Art Line Thought discusses the main issues that beset our time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what is shown there.
The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience.
Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory.
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking.
Sufism, called the mystical dimension of Islam, is known for its inclusive nature, as well as its ethics of love and compassion, its devotional music, art and architecture.
Holyer an Gof Winner 2024: Non-Fiction Class 5a Sacrament an Alter (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena selected and translated from Foxe s Book of Martyrs, which is attached to the translation of Bishop Bonner s Homilies in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add.
Karan vir Oberoi, a real-estate magnate living in New York has recurrent dreams of someone that looks like an ancient warrior clad in golden armour adorning golden earrings.
Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism.
Le nouveau volume de la série Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes constitue lui-même la première partie d'un ensemble de quatre volumes.
Selon une dynamique evidente mais, apparemment, irresistible, les textes medievaux mal connus tendent a le rester, et leur obscurite a se justifier d'elle-meme.
Scholars and students working on the early courtly and chivalric literature of medieval Europe will have often felt the need for contemporary theoretical material with which to illustrate their arguments about courtesy and chivalry in romances, etc.
It is tempting to speculate that had Ausias March (1397-1459) written in Spanish instead Catalan, or rather the Valencian form of it which was his native tongue, he would by now undoubtedly be more widely recognised as the finest lyric poet in the Iberian Peninsula before the sixteenth century, and as one of the greatest in fifteenth century Europe as a whole.
This study seeks to demonstrate that throughout centuries of re-creation, linguistic devices have been used to support both the production and the reproduction of the romances.
This study views the pervasive ambiguity of Chretien's romances as a positive quality and focuses on the techniques used in Yvain to encourage reflection.
Aunque en Italia la imitación como ejercicio literario formaba ya parte integrante de la preceptiva poética, para los escritores castellanos del siglo XVI representaba una manera nueva de aproximarse tanto a los clásicos greco-latinos como a los italianos más recientes.
Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden.
Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden.
L’édition critique de la première question du traité (Utrum aliquis philosophus per inquisitionem philosophicam in naturali lumine ad veram humanae beatitudinis notitiam valeat pervenire) est basée sur les sept manuscrits connus, dont deux autographes.
The guiding principle of this volume is the concept of the artes liberales, the trivium and quadrivium, as branches of learning that are rooted in Dante Alighieri's mind.
Curial e Güelfa és una novel·la anònima del segle XV escrita en llengua catalana, desconeguda fins al segle XIX i publicada por primera vegada el 1901.
These new translations of Bernat Metge's Libre de Fortuna e Prudencia (1381) into Spanish (verse) and English (prose) make this key early work by 14th-century Catalonia's most challenging writer available to the wider audience it has longed deserved.
The articles in this volume highlight the fact that the chivalric novel Tirant lo Blanc - written in Valencia by Joanot Martorell in the 15th century and translated into Italian in the 16th century - keeps being relevant in both the Italian and the Iberian Peninsulas, so closely related in past and present.
Winner of the 2018 Premio internazionale Francesco Saverio Nitti per il Mediterraneo in the category "e;Storia, Letteratura"e;, awarded annually by Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy.
This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment.
La cerimònia del Cant de la Sibil·la era celebrada, durant l'edat mitjana, amb variants més o menys locals i, sense dubte, amb diferències provinents de la tradició de cada lloc, des de Barcelona fins a l'Alguer, tot passant per Mallorca i Tarragona.
Al segon volum es presenten, de manera introductòria o preliminar, aspectes lingüístics de la novel·la catalana Curial e Güelfa, com ara les preferències lèxiques valencianes, els nombrosos italianismes (per influència sobretot de Boccaccio, però també del registre col·loquial) i alguna interferència del castellà, el francès i l'occità.
Al volum I es revisa la convivència a Nàpols d'humanistes italians amb autors ibèrics, en castellà i en català, amb un seguiment prosopogràfic de gairebé 300 cortesans relacionables amb les lletres.
La Carta y breve compendio (1466), dirigida a Rodrigo Alfonso, IV conde de Benavente, y la Exhortación o información de buena y sana doctrina (1467), dirigida al rey niño Alfonso XII de Castilla (1465-1468), redactadas por el letrado vinculado a la casa del conde de Benavente, Pedro de Chinchilla, conservadas en la actualidad en la Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo de Santander (M-88), son dos buenas muestras de la literatura de espejos de príncipes en el otoño de la Edad Media.
Siguiendo el hilo conductor de la relación entre el cuerpo y la pintura, "Estudios antiguos" se detiene en el análisis de obras de muy diversa condición (de Tiziano, Pontormo, Velázquez, Vermeer, Courbet, Manet y Dalí, además de láminas de tratados del Renacimiento y viñetas de prensa del siglo XIX) y las interroga de un modo poco convencional.
A la hora de aproximarse a la producción literaria de épocas pasadas, conviene tener en cuenta que las maneras de transmitir y de recibir la literatura han variado considerablemente a lo largo de la historia.
Los versos de Ausias Marc son una marqueteria literaria formidable, pero la vida del poeta puede ayudar a entender el sistema de valores que los sostienen.
