Author: Marsh's LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in the French Language Printed in Or Before A. D. 1715
Author: Marsh's LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Historical Approach to Casuistry
Author: Carlo GinzburgPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350006777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical presence before and since it was given a name in the Renaissance. The contributors to this volume examine a series of case studies to explain how different cultures and religions, past and present, have wrestled with morality's exceptions and margins and the norms with which they break. For example, to what extent have the Islamic and Judaic traditions allowed smoking tobacco or gambling? How did the Spanish colonization of America generate formal justifications for what it claimed? Where were the lines of transgression around food, money-lending, and sex in Ancient Greece and Rome? How have different systems dealt with suicide? Casuistry lives at the heart of such questions, in the tension between norms and exceptions, between what seems forbidden but is not. A Historical Approach to Casuistry does not only examine this tension, but re-frames casuistry as a global phenomenon that has informed ethical and religious traditions for millennia, and that continues to influence our lives today.
The Perraults
Author: Oded RabinovitchPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501730088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one of the brothers. While the writing of fairy tales may seem a frivolous enterprise, it was, in fact, linked to the cultural revolution of the seventeenth century, which paved the way for the scientific revolution, the rise of "national literatures," and the early Enlightenment. Rabinovitch argues that kinship networks played a crucial, yet unexamined, role in shaping the cultural and intellectual ferment of the day, which in turn shaped kinship and the social history of the family. Through skillful reconstruction of the Perraults’ careers and networks, Rabinovitch portrays the world of letters as a means of social mobility. He complicates our understanding of prominent institutions, such as the Academy of Sciences, Versailles, and the salons, as well as the very notions of authorship and court capitalism. The Perraults shows us that institutions were not simply rigid entities, embodying or defining intellectual or literary styles such as Cartesianism, empiricism, or the purity of the French language. Rather, they emerge as nodes that connect actors, intellectual projects, family strategies, and practices of writing.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdLa morale des jésuites, extraite fidèlement de leurs livres par un docteur de Sorbonne
Author: Nicolas PerraultAn Ecclesiastical History ... Translated ... by A. Maclaine ... New Edition ... Continued to the End of the Eighteenth Century by C. Coote ..., and Furnished with an Additional Appendix to the First Book by ... G. Gleig
Author: Johann Lorenz von MOSHEIMPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
La Morale Des Jesuites, Extraite Fidelement De Leurs Livres, Par Un Docteur De Sorbonne [N. Perrault].
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Author: Nicolas PerraultPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019043592
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology
Author: James Mark BaldwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Divisions of French Catholicism, 1629-1645
Author: Anthony D. WrightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317035437
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
For much of the sixteenth-century, France was wracked with religious strife, as the Wars of Religion pitted Catholic against Protestant. Whilst the conversion of Henri IV to Catholicism ended much of the conflict, the ensuing peace highlighted the fractious nature of French Catholicism and the many competing threads that ran through it. This book investigates the gradual division of the French Catholic reform movement, often associated with those known as the 'devots' during the first half of the seventeenth century. Such division, it is argued, was emerging before the publication in France (1641) of the posthumous 'Augustinus' of Jansenius, not simply as a sequel to that. Those who were already distinguishing themselves from other 'devots' before that date were thus not yet identifiable as 'Jansenists'. Rather, the initial defining sentiment was increasing French hostility towards Jesuit involvement in Catholic Reform, both at home and abroad. Drawing on sources from the Jesuit archives in Rome and on Port-Royal material in Paris, the book begins with an investigation into the development of Catholic Reform in France, showing the problems that emerged before 1629 and the degree to which these were or were not resolved. The second half of the book contrasts the fragmentation of the movement in the years beyond 1629, and the context of Richelieu's new directions in French foreign policy. Covering a crucial period in the lead up to the establishment of an absolute monarchy in France, this book provides a rich new explanation of the development of French political and ecclesiastical history. It will be of interest not only to those studying the early modern period, but to anyone wishing to understand the roots of French secular society.
An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Johann Lorenz von MosheimPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description