How the west was won essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger / edited by Willemien Otten, Arjo Vanderjagt, Hent de Vries.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, |
| Description | xxv, 420 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Pranger, M. B. |
| Other author/creator | Otten, Willemien. |
| Other author/creator | Vanderjagt, Arie Johan. |
| Other author/creator | Vries, Hent de. |
| Series | Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 188 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 188. ^A682319 |
| Contents | "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Peter Cramer -- Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / Frans-Willem Korsten -- History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Ernst van den Hemel -- Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Anselm Haverkamp -- Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / Joke Spaans -- From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Alastair Hamilton -- Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / Madeleine Kasten -- The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Piet de Roy -- Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / Rokus de Groot -- The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Peter Raedts -- Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Irene Zwiep -- Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Leen Spruit -- Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Willemien Otten -- Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / Asja Szafraniec -- On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Paola Marrati -- Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Hent de Vries -- Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / Giselle de Nie -- The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Bram Kempers -- Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / Bernard McGinn -- De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / Marcia L. Colish -- The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Babette Hellemans -- Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Ineke van 't Spijker -- Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / Arjo Vanderjagt -- The monastic challenge : remarks / Helmut Kohlenberger. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010004393 |
| ISBN | 9789004184961 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004184961 (hardback : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |