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Disharmony of the spheres : the Europe of Holbein's ambassadors / Jennifer Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Jennifer, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543. Ambassadors.
- Holbein, Hans.
- Ambassadors (Holbein, Hans).
- Intellectual life.
- Civilization.
- Europe--Civilization--16th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- ""Explores how certain educated northern Europeans in the first half of the sixteenth century increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and inclusive of mutual contradiction. Examines how early modern writers grappled with the problem of cultural, religious, and cosmological difference in relation to notions of universals and the divine"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Anamorphosis as symbolic form
- Melanchthon's imperfect mathematics
- Hartmann's locative science
- Erasmus enumerates Europe
- The self-dissimilar salvation of Holbein's ambassadors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271083407
- 0271083409
- OCLC:
- 1096222417
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