Renaissance medievalisms / edited by Konrad Eisenbichler.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Other Authors: Eisenbichler, Konrad
Format: Book
Language:English
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
Latin
Published: Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, ©2009.
Series:Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) ; 18.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I. THE CONSTANTLY CHANGING CONTINUUM
  • 1. Continuity and Change in Italian Universities Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Paul F. Grendler
  • 2. What Counted as an "Antiquity" in the Renaissance? / Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood
  • 3. Leone Ebreo's Appropriation of Boccaccio's De genealogia deorum gentiliumn / James Nelson Novoa
  • 4. The Fables of Bidpai from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / Donald Beecher
  • 5. Shakespeare's Reformed Virgin / Gary Waller
  • II. APPROPRIATING FOR CURRENT PURPOSES
  • 6. Self-Fashioning in the Mediterranean Contact Zone: Giovanni Battista Salvago and His Africa Overo Barbaria (1625) / Natalie Rothman
  • 7. Joan of Arc and the Crusade: Memorising Medieval Examples to Improve a Renaissance King / Lidia Radi
  • 8. Carnivalising Apocalyptic History in John Bale's KingJohan and Three Laws / Brian Gourley
  • 9. The Puzzle of Pucelle or Pussel: Shakespeare's Joan of Arc Compared With Two Antecedents / Philippa Sheppard
  • 10. A Vale of Tears: Early Modern Women's Writing and the Lamentory Style / Linda Vecchi
  • III. BUILDING UPON THE PAST
  • 11. Medieval Philosophy in the Late Renaissance: The Case of Internal and External Time in Scotist Metaphysics / Michael Edwards
  • 12. Medieval Geography in the Age of Exploration:The Fardle of Facions in its English Context / Richard Raiswell
  • 13. "Now I will believe that there are unicorns":The Existence of Fabulous Beasts in Renaissance Historiae Naturales / Hans Peter Broedel
  • 14. Medieval Universes and Early Modern Worlds: Conceptions of the Cosmos in Johannes Kepler's Somnium / Gabrielle Sugar
  • 15. Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652):The Relation Between Antiquarianism and Science in Seventeenth-Century England / Vittoria Feola.