Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature / / C. A. Patrides.
In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "from the Mushrome to the Angels" or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creatio...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- To the Reader
- Abbreviations
- 1. "Quaterniond into their celestiall Princedoms": The Orders of the Angels
- 2. "Ascending by Degrees Magnificent": Connections Between Heaven and Earth
- 3. "The Exact Compute of Time": Estimates of the Year of Creation
- 4. "Those mysterious things they observe in numbers": Approaches to Numerology
- 5. "With his face towards Heaven": The Upright Form of Man
- 6. "The first promise made to man": The Edenic Origins of Protestantism
- 7. "That great and indisputable miracle": The Cessation of the Oracles
- 8. "The beast with many heads": Views on the Multitude
- 9. "The bloody and cruell Turke": The Judgments of God in History
- 10. "A palpable hieroglyphick": The Fable of Pope Joan
- 11. "A horror beyond our expression": The Dimensions of Hell
- 12. "A Principle of infinite Love": The Salvation of Satan
- Index nominum
- Index rerum