Der Mäzen der Aufklärung (Frühe Neuzeit) (German Edition) by Johannes Bronisch

Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660

The Catholic contribution to English literary tradition has been broadly missed or misunderstood. This publication units out to rehabilitate a variety of Catholic creative writing, whereas exposing the position of anti-Catholicism as an resourceful stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England.

The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth

The Bible and ordinary Philosophy in Renaissance Italy explores the reciprocal courting among biblical interpretation and ordinary philosophy in sixteenth-century Italy. The e-book augments our wisdom of the manifold purposes of scientific services within the Renaissance and of the a number of ways that the Bible used to be learn by means of expert those that lacked theological education.

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France

Reminiscence and group in Sixteenth-Century France engages the query of remembering from a few diversified views. It examines the formation of groups inside assorted cultural, spiritual, and geographical contexts, specially with regards to the cloth stipulations for generating texts and discourses that have been the principles for collective practices of reminiscence.

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust: An Epic Connection (Studies in Comparative Literature)

The 1st a part of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust (1808), one of many nice works of German literature, grabbed the eye of Byron and Percy Shelley within the 1810s, enticing them in a shared fascination that used to be to exert a tremendous impression over their writings. during this comparative examine, Ben Hewitt explores the hyperlinks among Faust and Byron's and Shelley's works, connecting Goethe and the 2 English Romantic poets by way of their differing, intricately comparable experiments with epic.