The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe / Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blair, Ann, 1961-

Grafton, Anthony

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture diffusion--Europe--History.

Culture diffusion.

History.

Europe.

World History.

Local Subjects:

World History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 8 illustrations

Contained In:

Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 978-3-11-044252-6

Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 978-3-11-041345-8

Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package World History 978-3-11-041347-2

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgment

Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission

1. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo

2. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Cultural Transmission, Renaissance Dialectic, .and the Emerging Humanities

3. Cortés, Signs, and the Conquest of Mexico

4. “Second Nature”: The Idea of Custom in European Law, Society, and Culture

5. The Making of a Political Paradigm: The Ottoman State and Oriental Despotism

6. Civic Chivalry and the English Civil War

7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France

8. Honor, Morals, Religion, and the Law: The Action for Criminal Conversation in England, 1670-1857

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016)

ISBN:

9780812200492

OCLC:

44963691