How the west was won essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Otten, Willemien, Vanderjagt, Arie Johan, Vries, Hent de
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 188.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco ..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Peter Cramer
  • Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / Frans-Willem Korsten
  • History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Ernst van den Hemel
  • Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Anselm Haverkamp
  • Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / Joke Spaans
  • From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Alastair Hamilton
  • Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / Madeleine Kasten
  • The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Piet de Roy
  • Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / Rokus de Groot
  • The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Peter Raedts
  • Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Irene Zwiep
  • Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Leen Spruit
  • Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Willemien Otten
  • Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / Asja Szafraniec
  • On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Paola Marrati
  • Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Hent de Vries
  • Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / Giselle de Nie
  • The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Bram Kempers
  • Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / Bernard McGinn
  • De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / Marcia L. Colish
  • The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Babette Hellemans
  • Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Ineke van 't Spijker
  • Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / Arjo Vanderjagt
  • The monastic challenge : remarks / Helmut Kohlenberger.