Author: Edgar WindPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance
Author: Edgar WindPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance Enl. and Rev. Ed
Author: Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance
Author: Edgar Wind (Kunsthistoriker)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance ... New and Enlarged Edition. [With Plates.].
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Author: Edgar WINDPagan Mysteries in the Renaissance
Author: Edgar Wind (Historien d'art)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. Enlarged and Revised Ed
Author: Edgar WINDChristening Pagan Mysteries
Author: Marjorie O'Rourke BoylePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442650745
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism. It acknowledges that it was a feat for him to challenge the obscurantism of late medieval schooling by restoring classical studies. It recognizes that his editions of Greek and Latin authors alone fix his place in the history of scholarship. But the plainest questions about this achievement may still be asked, and the most popular texts freshly interpreted. Was his work only the expression in the ‘idiom of the Renaissance’ or a perennial Christian humanism? Or did he advance on it theoretically as well as practically? Did Erasmus contribute conceptually to the interrogation of pagan wisdom with the Christian economy? Christening Pagan Mysteries proposes that he did. Although doctrinal issues involved, this inquiry is not systematically theological. Erasmus wrote no treatise on the subject that might be so explored. A rhetorical approach, complementary to his own method, discloses his evangelical humanism through the analysis of three significant texts. The seminal dialogue Antibarbari provides the conceptual key in one of the most important humanist declarations in the history of Christian thought to the Renaissance. The Christocentric conviction it voices is then discerned through new interpretations of two other texts which christen pagan mysteries in original and important ways: the Moria and the final colloquy, ‘Epicureus,’ in which a pagan goddess and a pagan philosopher are gathered to Christ.
Mysteriously Meant
Author: Don Cameron AllenPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.
The Survival of the Pagan Gods
Author: Jean SeznecPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Author: Edgar Wind