The many ways in which the two major religious movements of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation - the Protestant and the Catholic - were diffused are brought forth through individual and collective efforts in the fields of the arts, literature, education, liturgy and rituals, preaching, propaganda, debates and polemics. The authors of this volume have used methods of cultural history, historical anthropology, history of communications, and micro-history to reveal a common source in the methods of propaganda, with the emphasis on what is inherent to the religious catholic sensibilities...

Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century. However, interest in Jewish and Hebraic sources had already increased during the early Renaissance, as an integral part of the renewed attention to ancient cultures, mostly Greek and Roman, as well as eastern cultures - from Egypt to India. This volume presents a selection of papers from the international conference Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance (University of Haifa, May, 2009), that trace the humanist encounter with Hebrew and Jewish sources during that period. The chapters included in this volume not only...

L espace de recherche de cet ouvrage porte sur la relation problematique entre la litterature et l anatomie, ou plus exactement entre l ecriture et l acte d anatomiser. Il s est agi de savoir comment le texte se nourrit et se transforme au contact de pratiques scientifiques, esthetiques et philosophiques. L ouvrage presente des parcours createurs multiples, inspires du modele anatomique et essaie de mettre ensemble differentes versions de cette methodologie, nee d une science precise, celle du corps, devenue instrument de lecture du monde. Les etudes sont regroupees autour de deux axes: d une...