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“michael attridge”

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  • Rethinking Freire and Illich

    Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives

    Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Michael Attridge, Jon Igelmo Zaldívar ...
    Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Promise of Renewal

    Dominicans and Vatican II

    by Marie Crowley ...
    With variety and breadth, these essays celebrate the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Dominican Order as well as the richness in Catholic thought and praxis during the past hundred years around the world. Their themes range from Yves Congar's view of the hierarchy to Jacques Loew's theory of ministry in the workplace. Ideas from thinkers interacting with Islam and Judaism lead on to a ... Read more

    $40.93 CAD

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  • The Shock of the Ancient

    Literature & History in Early Modern France

    by Larry F. Norman ...
    The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the ... Read more

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  • Reconsidering Roman power

    Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions

    Edited by Katell Berthelot ...
    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

    by Bruce Hayes ...
    In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France, Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared.This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor ... Read more

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  • The Gargantuan Polity

    On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance

    by Michael Randall ...
    Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects. Noting how the relationship between ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce

    A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre

    by Jehan Le Fèvre, Linda Burke ...
    The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fevre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient authorities in the light of "true" experience, especially his own.Despite its foundational ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book

    by Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Edited by Philippe Desan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... Read more

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  • The Dream of Absolutism

    Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity

    by Hall Bjørnstad ...
    The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV.What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to do?In this sweeping reconsideration of absolutist culture, Hall ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment Qur'an

    The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam

    by Ziad Elmarsafy ...
    Iconoclastic and fiercely rational, the European Enlightenment witnessed the birth of modern Western society and thought. Reason was sacrosanct and for the first time, religious belief and institutions were open to widespread criticism. In this groundbreaking book, Ziad Elmarsafy challenges this accepted wisdom to argue that religion was still hugely influential in the era. But the religion in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Constantinople and its Hinterland

    Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993

    by Cyril Mango, Gilbert Dagron ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD