Alternative Worlds Imagined 1500 1700
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Alternative Worlds Imagined 1500 1700
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Author : James Colin Davis
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-09-07
Alternative Worlds Imagined 1500 1700 written by James Colin Davis and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Science categories.
This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a traditional society; the necessity of fiction both in rejecting and constructing the status quo; and the circumstances in which radical and utopian fictions appear to become imperative. In particular, it closely examines non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley’s thought; millennialism and utopianism as mutual critiques; form and substance in early modern utopianism/radicalism; Thomas More’s utopian theatre of interests; and James Harrington and the political necessity of narrative fiction. This detailed analysis underpins observations about the longer term historical significance and meaning of both radicalism and utopianism.
James Harrington
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Author : Rachel Hammersley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-03
James Harrington written by Rachel Hammersley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with History categories.
Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why civil war had broken out in 1642, to put the case for commonwealth government, and to offer a detailed constitutional blueprint for a new and successful English government. In this intellectual biography of Harrington, Rachel Hammersley sets a fresh analysis of this and Harrington's other writings against the background of his life and the turbulent period in which he lived. In doing so, this study seeks to move beyond the conventional view of Harrington as primarily a republican thinker, offering a broader and more comprehensive account of him which addresses the complexity of his republicanism as well as exploring his contributions to economic, historical, religious, philosophical, and scientific debates; his experimentation with vocabulary and literary form; and the relationship between his life and thought. Harrington is presented as an innovative political thinker, committed to democracy, social mobility, and meritocracy. Ultimately, this broader examination of Harrington's life and work opens a window on political, economic, religious, and scientific issues which serve to complicate understandings of the English Revolution, and sheds fresh light on the relevance of seventeenth-century ideas to the modern world.
Popular Culture And Political Agency In Early Modern England And Ireland
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Author : Michael J. Braddick
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
Popular Culture And Political Agency In Early Modern England And Ireland written by Michael J. Braddick and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Great Britain categories.
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation, and the languages of politics
Democratic Moments
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Author : Xavier Márquez
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-08
Democratic Moments written by Xavier Márquez and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with History categories.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This collection of short essays on texts in the history of democracy shows the diversity of ideas that contributed to the making of our present democratic moment. The selection of texts goes beyond the standard, Western-centric canonical history of democracy, with its beginnings in ancient Athens and its climax in the French and American revolutions, recovering some of the significant body of democratic and anti-democratic thought in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. It includes discussions of well-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, but also of a variety of thinkers much less well known in English as writers on democracy: Al Farabi, Bolívar, Gandhi, Radishchev, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen, and many others. The essays thus de-center our understanding of the moments where the idea of democracy was articulated, rejected, and appropriated. Spanning antiquity to the present and global in scope, with contributions by key scholars of democracy from around the world, Democratic Moments is the ideal text for all students wishing to expand their understanding of the ways in which this contested concept has been understood.
The Reformation Of The Heart
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Author : SARAH. APETREI
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-18
The Reformation Of The Heart written by SARAH. APETREI and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-18 with History categories.
This groundbreaking study offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the seventeenth-century English Revolution. Examining published works and previously unexplored archival material, Sarah Apetrei shows the transformative role that women played in religious reform during the period.
Across Borders And Time Jonathan Swift
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Author : Csaba Maczelka
language : en
Publisher: SPECHEL e-ditions
Release Date : 2022-12-16
Across Borders And Time Jonathan Swift written by Csaba Maczelka and has been published by SPECHEL e-ditions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The volume Across Borders and Time: Jonathan Swift contains the papers delivered at the conference The World of Swift; Swift and his World, which was dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift. The conference was held on 24-25 November 2017, at the House of Arts and Literature, Pécs, and jointly organised by the Institute of English Studies of Pécs University and SPECHEL, the latter of which is also the publisher of this volume in its series, SPECHEL e-ditions. It also benefited from the support provided by the Irish Embassy in Budapest. That year also marked the 650th anniversary of Hungary’s first university, founded in Pécs in 1367, and so the conference honoured that event, too. In this, the fifth SPECHEL e-dition, series editor Rouse joins up once again with SPECHEL member Gabriella Hartvig, an internationally respected scholar of the period and colleague at Pécs University, together with Irish Swiftian scholar David Clare. The volume comprises a selection of essays emanating from papers delivered at the conference celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift, held in the anniversary year of 2017, and includes a paper delivered by the Irish Ambassador to Hungary that opened the conference. We are grateful to the Irish Embassy for their financial support, as well as to a number of local businesses and the Mayor’s Office of Pécs. The conference was organised by SPECHEL as part of the British and Irish Autumn 2017 series of events, and included a recital of the music of the Irish harper Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738).
Rooney Custom Text Engl 2302a Literature And Cultures 1500 1700
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Author : Broadview Custom Texts
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2023-11-09
Rooney Custom Text Engl 2302a Literature And Cultures 1500 1700 written by Broadview Custom Texts and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-09 with Fiction categories.
This is a Broadview Custom Text created for students in Professor Morgan Rooney's ENGL 2302A: Literature and Cultures, 1500-1700 course at Carleton University.
The Invention Of Discovery 1500 1700
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Author : Dr James Dougal Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-05-28
The Invention Of Discovery 1500 1700 written by Dr James Dougal Fleming and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Science categories.
The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 is a set of attempts to think back behind discovery, considered as a decisive trope for modern knowledge.
Francia Band 46
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Author : Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
language : fr
Publisher: Thorbecke
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Francia Band 46 written by Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris and has been published by Thorbecke this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Architecture categories.
Der Band enthält 26 Beiträge in deutscher, französischer und englischer Sprache. Die Themenvielfalt reicht vom Aufgabenbereich der Grafen im karolingischen Ostfrankenreich, dem Gottesfrieden von 1163 in der Diözese Toulouse, der Persönlichkeit Kaiser Karls IV. und der Tanzpolemik in der Zeit des Großen Abendländischen Schismas über Schützengesellschaften im Reich des 16. Jahrhunderts, die französische Botschaft im osmanischen Istanbul und die Rolle der Muskatnuss in der Île-de-France bis zu Darstellungen des Bürgerkönigs Louis-Philippe, das Verhältnis Bismarcks zu Frankreich, die Heimkehr des Historikers Walther Cartellieri aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg und einem Rückblick auf die 68er-Bewegung in Deutschland und Frankreich. Mit Fragen des spätmittelalterlichen Rittertums befassen sich die Beiträge einer 2016 veranstalteten Tagung.
Siena
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Author : Jane Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Siena written by Jane Stevenson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with Travel categories.
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century, profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route, the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial, financial and artistic centre for four centuries. Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death, but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well-preserved medieval city, crammed with world-class art and architecture, furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions, and set in a heavenly landscape.