History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance / / Karl F. Morrison.
Karl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer comes from ideas abou...
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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] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- PART I: Digesting History
- CHAPTER 1. Interpreters at the Feast, or A Dialogue between Ancients and Moderns
- CHAPTER 2. History as an Art of the Imagination
- CHAPTER 3. Cognition and Cult
- CHAPTER 4. From One Renaissance to Another
- PART II: Reading between the Lines
- CHAPTER 5. The Kingdom of God: A Silence of Intuition
- CHAPTER 6. The Hermeneutic Role of Women: A Silence of Comprehension
- CHAPTER 7. Text and Time at the Court of Eugenius III: A Silence of Multiplication
- CHAPTER 8. Conclusions: A Word on "Medieval Humanism"
- Index