Transforming Topoi : : the exigencies and impositions of tradition /

Transforming Topoi : : the exigencies and impositions of tradition / / Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, editors.

"Traditions thrive on the dialectic of repetition. Drawing their topoi from the well of memory, they are situated on the very border between the deliberate and the habitual. Yet how is it possible to influence traditions? The present collection of essays studies the ways in which traditions are...

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Superior document:Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung ; Band 23
TeilnehmendeR:
Johnston, Andrew James,
Rouse, Margitta,
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm,
Place / Publishing House:Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung ; Band 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (235 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • The exigencies and impositions of tradition / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
  • Traditions and the dynamics of change : preliminary thoughts on a key issue in early modern studies / Peter-André Alt
  • Ideas of reform and tradition at the late Medieval reform councils / Phillip H. Stump
  • (Un)veiling the veil : Trojan temporalities, Chaucerian ekphrasis and literary innovation in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece / Margitta Rouse
  • Philosophy and orthodoxy : valuation and devaluation of the Platonic tradition in the late Renaissance / Maria Muccillo
  • The Platonic tradition and its fates : Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno / Anna Laura Puliafito
  • Indomptable valeur : Le Grand Condé and the end of the hero in art / Katharina Krause
  • Natural sociability? The Aristotelian tradition as a challenge to modern natural law as reflected in European Enlightenment literature : Jonathan Swift, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Karl Wezel / Gideon Stiening
  • The Enlightenment historicization of religion and philosophy : Fontenelle and Hume / Stephen Gaukroger
  • From centaur to human : mythological tradition in the works of the French evolutionists / Bernd Roling
  • The exigencies, constructions and inescapabilities of tradition : to what extent can Lebenswelten be 'invented'? / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann.

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