Culture of Learning (eBook)

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON AUTHORS

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Learning to Be Human: An Introduction to the Culture of Learning Till the European Renaissance

HOW TO LEARN

1 A Passion for Learning: Knowledge Acquisition and Management in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe

Denise Ming-yueh Wang

2 The Page and the Room: Medieval Architectures for Persuasion and Meditation

Sergi Sancho Fibla

3 From Revealing to Ravelling: Transformations in the Allegorical Representations of Knowledge During the Renaissance

Audrey Lecoeur

4 An Allegory of Learning: The Adventures of the Redcrosse Knight

Chih-chiao Joseph Yang

5 Between Workshop Practice and Art Theory: Artistic Formation in Renaissance

Venice Candida Syndikus

6 Burning Only with the Passion for Gathering Books: Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon and Its Modern Reception

Henk Vynckier

WHAT TO LEARN

7 “To Be or Not To Be” on the Alien Stage: Learning Englishness in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy

Hui-zung Perng

8 Too Vile for the Devil’s Ear? Anti-Gaelic Invective in Lowland Scottish Literature

Manfred Malzahn

9 Gnosis and the Unknown God: Esoteric Christianity from the New Testament to Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Wesley Hwang

10 The Eleusinian Mythic Paradigm of Life and Death in Shakespearean Drama Rupendra Guha-Majumdar

11 Marriage and Love: the Symbolic Significance Of Beowulf’s Celibacy

Yung-chih Cheng

12 Learning from the Poetics and Politics in Two Anti-Pastoral Plays by Shakespeare

Chin-ching Lee

INDEX

Chin-ching Lee and Daniel Hsu Lin