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.
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Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 188 |
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 188. |
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Physical Description: | xxv, 420 p. :; ill. |
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Other title: | "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco ..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / The monastic challenge : remarks / |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789004184961 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004184961 (hardback : alk. paper) 9789004184978 (electronic bk.) |
ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Willemien Otten, Arjo Vanderjagt, Hent de Vries. |