Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age...
Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fasc...
This second volume of the "Theophrastus Paracelsus Studies" presents a collection of papers by international scholars from a variety of disciplines. They illuminate the factors from the history of culture and mentality which were of significance for Paracelsus' work, and his comprehensive activity in religion, medicine and alchemy, together with his influence on contemporary developments in medicine, natural healing and bioethics. In addition, the authors deal with aspects of sociopolitics and the history of ideas which move the central significance of Paracelsus more into the focus of...
This second volume of the "Theophrastus Paracelsus Studies" presents a collection of papers by international scholars from a variety of disciplines...
Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) gehorte zwar zu den herausragenden Arzten seiner Zeit, war aber zugleich heftig umkampft, wie die Entwicklung der Medizingeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts uberhaupt vor Augen fuhrt, als viele verschiedene wissenschaftliche Methoden und Denkweisen zum Einsatz gelangten. Viele Arzte genossen hohes Ansehen, aber der Berufsstand erwies sich zugleich als relativ leichte Zielscheibe fur Spott und bittere Satire. Paracelsus geriet also schnell ins Zentrum von heftigsten intellektuellen, wissenschaftlichen und medizinischen Auseinandersetzungen zur Frage nach...
Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) gehorte zwar zu den herausragenden Arzten seiner Zeit, war aber zugleich heftig umkampft, wie die Entwicklung...
Das Streben nach einem guten Leben, mithin nach einem guten Tod, beherrschte schon immer die Philosophie, Theologie, und dann auch die Literatur und Medizin. In der Fruhneuzeit intensivierte sich der Diskurs zu diesem Thema, wie die Arbeiten von Paracelsus, Valentin Weigel und Jacob Bohme u. a. deutlich vor Augen fuhren. Im vorliegenden Band reflektieren Wissenschaftler unterschiedlichster Disziplinen, von der Philosophie- zur Medizingeschichte, von Theologie bis zur Literaturwissenschaft, im engen Gesprach miteinander, was im Spiegel ihrer jeweiligen Quellen gutes Leben und guter Tod...
Das Streben nach einem guten Leben, mithin nach einem guten Tod, beherrschte schon immer die Philosophie, Theologie, und dann auch die Literatur un...
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge,...
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge,...
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture.
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and...
A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieva...
Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlations between the individual and space throughout time, which contributed essentially to identity formation in many different settings. The contributors to this volume engage with a variety of pre-modern texts, images, and other documents related to travel and the individual's self-orientation in foreign lands and make an effort to determine the concept of identity within a spatial framework often determined by the meeting of various cultures....
Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows us to take the next step and to analyze the correlat...
Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether...
Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research ...
