The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe /

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe / / Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton.

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The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic proces...

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HerausgeberIn:
Blair, Ann,
Grafton, Anthony,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©1990
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 8 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission
  • 1. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo
  • 2. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Cultural Transmission, Renaissance Dialectic, .and the Emerging Humanities
  • 3. Cortés, Signs, and the Conquest of Mexico
  • 4. "Second Nature": The Idea of Custom in European Law, Society, and Culture
  • 5. The Making of a Political Paradigm: The Ottoman State and Oriental Despotism
  • 6. Civic Chivalry and the English Civil War
  • 7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France
  • 8. Honor, Morals, Religion, and the Law: The Action for Criminal Conversation in England, 1670-1857
  • Contributors
  • Index

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