| Author | : Pauline Moffitt Watts |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2022-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 900447742X |
Introducing Nicholas of Cusa
| Author | : Bellitto, Christopher M. |
| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 161643368X |
A primer on the the vocabulary, ideas, and works of this leading Renaissance thinker of the fifteenth century who wrote on everything from papal politics to astronomy to interreligious dialogue.
Nicolaus Cusanus on Faith and the Intellect
| Author | : K. Meredith Ziebart |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2013-11-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004252142 |
In Nicolaus Cusanus on Faith and the Intellect, K.M. Ziebart argues convincingly that Cusanus’ epistemology was a direct response to late-medieval debates over the relation between faith and reason—one which sought to resolve these debates by introducing a controversially strong integration of philosophy and theology. By examining his works in the context of debates with his peers, Ziebart shows how and why Cusanus came to articulate a theory of knowledge in which faith is posited as inherent to the very structure of mind, as the vis iudiciaria, or power of judgment. This well-grounded study sheds new light on the Cusan philosophy and expands our view of a crucial, liminal period in European intellectual history.
The Study of Spirituality
| Author | : Cheslyn Jones |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 682 |
| Release | : 1986-12-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0199770735 |
Written by contributors representing the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Free Church, and Orthodox traditions, this collection examines the nature and form of individual Christian devotion throughout the centuries.
Later Medieval English Literature
| Author | : Douglas Gray |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 728 |
| Release | : 2008-04-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198122187 |
A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. Includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.
Apocalypse as Utopian Expectation (800-1500)
| Author | : Derk Visser |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004106215 |
This study identifies Berengaudus of Ferrieres as a Carolingian whose Apocalypse commentary accentuated the utopianism of early Medieval exegetes. It suggests that the commentary's popularity may provide a new reading for the eschatological Romanesque iconography of Western France as well as for Van Eyck's "Adoration of the Lamb."
Divine Domesticity
| Author | : Marjorie OʹRourke Boyle |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004106758 |
This cultural analysis of the divine indwelling from the fourth through sixteenth centuries reverses the history of doctrine to venture doctrine as history. It discovers a fundamental disparity between domestic values and the exilic asceticism that once dominated western civilization.
Telling Tears in the English Renaissance
| Author | : Marjory E. Lange |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2021-12-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 900447790X |
Tears and weeping are, at once, human universals and socially-constrained phenomena. This volume explores the interface between those two viewpoints by examining medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries to see how dominant paradigms regarded who could, who must, and who must not weep. These paradigms shifted in some cases radically, during these centuries. Without a clear understanding of how the Renaissance 'read' tears, it is difficult to avoid using our own preconceptions -- often quite different and very misleading. There are five chapters; one on medical and scientific material, two on sermons, and two on different types of lyric.
The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality
| Author | : John C. Hirsh |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2021-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004477675 |
This volume deals with the ways in which religious Faith was communicated and adapted during the late medieval period and after, and with the ways in which spirituality, culture, written texts and gender interacted during the same period. Drawing on texts like the Book of Margery Kempe, popular prayers, romances and devotions, well-known devout practices, mystical and visionary writing, and devout representations like the Arma Christi, the book addresses the ways in which these both informed and were informed by attitudes towards Faith and Belief which continue today. Subjects include: the development of religious attitudes; devotion to Christ's blood; the influence of mysticism on literary texts; Chaucer's feminism; Eastern sources; and the transmission of medieval spirituality into the New World.
