How the west was won :: essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /

"How the West Was Won" contains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural horizons and ideals, and including...

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Weitere Verfasser: Otten, Willemien, Vanderjagt, Arie Johan, Vries, Hent de
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 188.
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Zusammenfassung:"How the West Was Won" contains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural horizons and ideals, and including censorship; and on the Christian Middle Ages, when an interesting combination of religion and culture stimulated the monastic and intellectual experiments of Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard. The volume is held together by the method of persistent questioning, in the tradition of the western c.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxv, 420 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004184978
900418497X
1282952749
9781282952744
ISSN:0920-8607 ;

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