UID:
almafu_9958352337402883
Format:
1 online resource :
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8 illus.
ISBN:
9780812200492
Content:
Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgment --
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Introduction: Notes from Underground on Cultural Transmission --
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1. Invention of Traditions and Traditions of Invention in Renaissance Europe: The Strange Case of Annius of Viterbo --
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2. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Cultural Transmission, Renaissance Dialectic, .and the Emerging Humanities --
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3. Cortés, Signs, and the Conquest of Mexico --
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4. “Second Nature”: The Idea of Custom in European Law, Society, and Culture --
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5. The Making of a Political Paradigm: The Ottoman State and Oriental Despotism --
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6. Civic Chivalry and the English Civil War --
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7. Theology and Atheism in Early Modern France --
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8. Honor, Morals, Religion, and the Law: The Action for Criminal Conversation in England, 1670-1857 --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.9783/9780812200492
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200492
