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.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 188
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Otten, Willemien.; Vanderjagt, Arie Johan.; Vries, Hent de.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 188.
• Physical Description: xxv, 420 p. :; ill.
• 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 /
• 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.