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Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims: Classical Receptions in Early New England
ISBN: 9789004351172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims David Lupher examines the availability, circulation, and uses of Greek and Roman culture in the earliest period of the British settlement of New England. This book offers the first systematic correction to the dominant assumption that the Separatist settlers of Plymouth Plantation (the so-called “Pilgrims”) were hostile or indifferent to “humane learning”— a belief dating back to their cordial enemy, the May-pole reveler Thomas Morton of Ma-re Mount, whose own eccentric classical negotiations receive a chapter in this book. While there have been...
In Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims David Lupher examines the availability, circulation, and uses of Greek and Roman culture in the earliest period of the...
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786,09 zł |
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Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America
ISBN: 9780472031788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Romans in a New World shows how the ancient Romans haunted the Spanish conquest of the New World, more often than not as passionately rejected models. While the conquistadors themselves and their publicists challenged the reputations of the Romans for incomparable military genius and daring, Spanish critics of the conquest launched a concerted assault upon two other prominent uses of ancient Rome as a model: as an exemplar of imperialistic motives and behavior fit for Christians to follow, and as a yardstick against which to measure the cultural level of the natives of the New...
Romans in a New World shows how the ancient Romans haunted the Spanish conquest of the New World, more often than not as passionately rejected ...
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cena:
184,64 zł |