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Jan Veenstra
This volume presents a critical edition of Laurens Pignon’s treatise Contre les devineurs (1411) and examines its literary and historical context of courtly magic and astrology in Burgundy and France…
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This book is a collection of eight essays on the ideology of Burgundy, dealing with the body of ideas, images, institutions and narrative fictions produced for the Valois dukes of…
Papers presented at a conference in Apeldoorn, 3-5 November 2005.
Airy Nothings contains eleven contributions on the scholarly and literary representations of the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
This collection of new essays throws light on aspects of Christianity and Humanism and their mutual relations. The central focus is on the age of Renaissance and Reformation, and the…
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2002. 314 S., 12 Abb., 10 Tab Medieval to Early Modern Culture. Kultureller Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Fruhen Neuzeit. Vol. 2 Herausgegeben…
The present volume tries to do justice to the variety of self-representational strategies in the art and literature of the late medieval and early modern period by focusing on both…
Die beiden Jahrhunderte zwischen 1400 und 1600 sind - bei allem Fortsetzen mittelalterlicher Pragungen - von einem permanenten Wandel im Grossen wie im Kleinen erfullt. Exemplarisch zeigt sich diese Dynamik…
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Erziehung, Bildung und Bildungsinstitutionen sind fur den Aufschwung, den Europa in Spatmittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit nimmt, von zentraler Bedeutung. Die ungeheuren Fortschritte, die europaische Geistes- und Naturwissenschaft im Laufe der…
Historical interest is rooted in a quest for identity. The histories of tribes, communities and nations help to define their selfhood, and hence their pasts are inevitably modelled on an…
In spite of the continuing influence of the medieval tradition, the two centuries between 1400 and 1600 display a constant process of change both in wider and more localised cultural…
Rudolf Suntrup,Jan R Veenstra
Fore mote than three decades the problem of the transition from medieval to early modern time has been an important issue of debate for various disciplines within cultural history. The…
Highlights a limited number of themes relative to late medieval and early modern culture with a special focus on the symbols of rulership. The forms of symbolic communication dealt with…
