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  • Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

    Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800

    par Isabel Rivers ...
    In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of ... En savoir plus

    $125.99 CAD

  • Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry

    par Isabel Rivers ...
    Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance;illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas;contains extracts from key classical ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    Collections Livre 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... En savoir plus

    $164.99 CAD

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    An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    par C. S. Lewis ...
    In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe. ... En savoir plus

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  • Leviathan

    par Thomas Hobbes ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with ... En savoir plus

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  • Pensees

    par Blaise Pascal ...
    Traduit par A. Krailsheimer ...
    A passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicistBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensées is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy. This work dominated ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400?1580, Second Edition

    par Eamon Duffy ...
    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Milton: Paradise Lost

    Modifié par Alastair Fowler ...
    Collections series Longman Annotated English Poets
    Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature, of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture. ... En savoir plus

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  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography

    An Intellectual Biography

    St. Augustine was undoubtedly one of the great thinkers of the early church. Yet it has long been assumed--and not without reason--that the main lines of Augustine's thought have been more or less fixed since his death. That insofar as we should be aware of him in the twenty-first century, he is a figure described-if not circumscribed--by his times. A major revisionist treatment of Augustine's ... En savoir plus

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  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... En savoir plus

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  • Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

    par William Poole ...
    "An authoritative, and accessible, introduction to Milton's life and an engaging examination of the process of composing Paradise Lost" ( Choice).In early 1642 Milton promised English readers a work of literature so great that "they should not willingly let it die." Twenty-five years later, the epic poem Paradise Lost appeared in print. In the interim, however, the poet had gone totally blind and ... En savoir plus

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