Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-35972-7 (ISBN)
Ovanes Akopyan is a research fellow at the University of Innsbruck. He has published extensively on Renaissance and early modern intellectual history and science, including Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2020).
List of Illustrations
Note on Contributors
Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate
Ovanes Akopyan
Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology
1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune
John Sellars
2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate
Paul Richard Blum
3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno’s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Elisabeth Blum
4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity
Jo Coture
Part 2: Political and Social Context
5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli’s Anatomy of the Body Politic
Guido Giglioni
6 “Fortune is a Mistresse”: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry
Orlando Reade
7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Sophie Raux
Part 3: Artistic Considerations
8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate
Damiano Acciarino
9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour
Dalia Judovitz
10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia
Ovanes Akopyan
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.05.2021 |
---|---|
Reihe/Serie | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 327 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 627 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-35972-9 / 9004359729 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-35972-7 / 9789004359727 |
Zustand | Neuware |
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
aus dem Bereich