Tag: Premodern

Free Download Willemien Otten, Karla Pollmann, "Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter Between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation"
English | 2007 | pages: 379 | ISBN: 9004160698 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This volume presents a broad variety of specifically Christian approaches to poetry and analyses modes of interpreting the Bible that are new in poetry compared with prose exegesis. Both theoretical statements on poetry by Christians and concrete poetic works from roughly 300 to 1250 AD are taken into account.

Free Download Karolina Anna Mroziewicz, "Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power: The King’s Body Never Dies "
English | ISBN: 9462983313 | 2017 | 448 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the medieval period, the monarch was seen as the embodiment of the community of his kingdom, the body politic. And while we’ve long since shed that view, it nonetheless continues to influence our understanding of contemporary politics. This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations-bodies politic-were and continue to be constructed and challenged. Drawing on history, archaeology, literary criticism, and art history, the contributors survey a wide geographical and chronological spectrum to offer a panoramic view of these dynamic political entities.

Free Download Carole Rawcliffe, "Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe "
English | ISBN: 9462985197 | 2019 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how public health norms were enforced in the judicial, religious and socio-cultural sphere before the advent of modern medicine and the nation-state, crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and engaging with factors such as spiritual purity, civic pride and good neighbourliness.

Free Download Michael A Ryan, "A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9004243097 | PDF | pages: 464 | 8.0 mb
The final book of the New Testament, the Apocalypse, has been controversial since its initial appearance during the first century A.D. For centuries after, theologians, exegetes, scholars, and preachers have grappled with the imagery and symbolism behind this fascinating and terrifying book. Their thoughts and ideas regarding the apocalypse-and its trials and tribulations-were received within both elite and popular culture in the medieval and early modern eras. Therefore, one may rightly call the Apocalypse, and its accompanying hopes and fears, a foundational pillar of Western Civilization. The interest in the Apocalypse, and apocalyptic movements, continues apace in modern scholarship and society alike. This present volume, A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse, collates essays from specialists in the study of premodern apocalyptic subjects. It is designed to orient undergraduate and graduate students, as well as more established scholars, to the state of the field of premodern apocalyptic studies as well as to point them in future directions for their scholarship and/or pedagogy.

Free Download Stephan Kigensan Licha, "Esoteric Zen: Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan "
English | ISBN: 9004536302 | 2023 | 339 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Despite their starkly contrasting images, premodern Japanese Zen and tantric Buddhism were closely entwined movements. Based on recently discovered manuscript materials and covering the 13th to the 17th century, Esoteric Zen offers the first comprehensive account of their multi-faceted relationship.

Free Download Gábor Almási, "Rethinking the Work Ethic in Premodern Europe"
English | ISBN: 3031380916 | 2023 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Through analysis of a range of discourses, it focuses on the roles played by intellectuals in formulating, communicating, and contesting ideas about work and its ethical value. The book moves away from the idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social, intellectual, religious, economic, political, and ideological objectives. Rather than a singular work ethic that left a decisive mark on the development of Western culture and economy, the volume stresses plurality. The essays draw on approaches from intellectual, social, and cultural history. They explore how, why, and in what contexts labour became an important and openly promoted value; who promoted or opposed hard work and for what reasons; and whether there was an early modern break with ancient and medieval discourses on work. These historicized visions of work ethics help enrich our understanding of present-day changing attitudes to work.

Free Download Vered Tohar, "The Hebrew Folktale in Premodern Morality Literature "
English | ISBN: 0814347045 | 2023 | 176 pages | EPUB | 1181 KB
This pioneering exploration shows that in the early modern world, printed works on morality and ethics served as an important conveyor of classic Jewish folktales and as an important channel of leisure reading in premodern Jewish culture. Utilizing a corpus of over 400 Musar tales, author Vered Tohar carefully opens a path to understand the thematic and poetic features of those tales. This innovative reframing of early modern Musar texts reveals a new history of Jewish folklore and emphasizes the continuity of Hebrew literature from medieval to modern era. Tohar classifies these stories, which she calls "the Musar folktales," into four genres adapted from classic poetic studies: tragedy, comedy, parable or social exemplum, and theological allegory. As parables of vice and virtue, the works featured here were originally printed and circulated in early modern Jewish communities, and each contained themes of love and hate, good and evil, loyalty and betrayal, or life and death. Beyond their traditional function of ethical and moral edification, Tohar advances the

Free Download Rethinking Emotion : Interiority and Exteriority in Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary Thought By Campe, Rüdiger; Weber, Julia
2014 | 390 Pages | ISBN: 3110259249 | PDF | 4 MB
This book reevaluates premodern, modern and contemporary conceptions of affects, passions and emotion by analyzing various historical manifestations of the discourse on emotion. Unlike most previous research, which especially in the German tradition often focused exclusively on the rise of the modern (Romantic) interiority without paying attention to the underlying dichotomy of "interiority / exteriority", this study explores the historical preconditions, the internal logic and the possible shortcomings that inform our thinking of emotion

Free Download The Power of Urban Water: Studies in Premodern Urbanism
by Nicola Chiarenza, Annette Haug
English | 2020 | ISBN: 3110676648 | 281 Pages | True PDF | 28 MB

Free Download Professor Konrad Eisenbichler, "Premodern Masculinities in Transition "
English | ISBN: 1837651701 | 2024 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 21 MB + 22 MB