Brepols Online Books Other Miscellanea Collection 2013 - bob2013miot
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Certitude et incertitude à la Renaissance
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Certitude et incertitude à la Renaissance show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Certitude et incertitude à la RenaissanceLa Renaissance est marquée par un grand mouvement de rationalisation du savoir. La science sert de référence à l'art, qui par sa mathématisation, tente de s'approcher le plus possible de la certitude absolue dont elle fournit le modèle. Les sciences intermédiaires, disciplines d'application de la mathématique, telles que la mécanique, l'optique, l'abaque, se développent, permettant de nombrer le réel, parallèlement aux instruments de précision qui accroissent l'efficacité de la technique. D'autres disciplines, telles que le droit ou l'histoire, cherchent de même à élaborer les principes et la méthode de leur certitude propre. Il est toutefois des domaines, tels que la foi ou l'acte moral, où la certitude ne s'étalonne pas sur la vérité de la science, mais trouve en son coeur l'incertitude fondatrice de l'expérience humaine. En tentant, dans la recherche du bien et du mal, du beau et du laid, de conjurer la relativité et la précarité de la vie, l'intelligence humaine ne saurait fait l'économie du doute qui la distingue de la machine et fonde sa grandeur. C'est à cette tension jamais résolue, mise en évidence par l'humanisme de la Renaissance, que cet ensemble de contributions se propose de réfléchir.
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Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450-1650)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450-1650) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450-1650)These twelve essays by leading scholars in the field are products of an international research project on early modern Cyprus and its relation to cultural developments in the West, started in November 2009.
Cyprus, an independent ‘Frankish’ kingdom from 1191 to 1473, became a Venetian protectorate, then, in 1489, a Venetian colony until its conquest by the Ottomans in 1570. Its population was diverse and rich in religious experience - preponderantly followers of the Greek rite, but also Latins, Eastern Christians and Jews.
Its heritage from Antiquity, as well as from the Byzantine and Frankish periods, its monasteries (which received, reproduced and produced manuscripts) and its geopolitically pivotal site on East-West trade routes attracted numerous Westerners. The cultural magnet drew deeper interests than those of pilgrimage and tourism.
The continuous to and fro of Europeans, many of them Venetian, the island’s importance to economic and military strategies, and the allure conferred by a mythological past stimulated and fostered a generous descriptive and allusive literature.
The present collection is the first of its kind, centered on written culture and exchanges during the Renaissance period, deepening their source-based documentary study, as well as our knowledge of the island’s culture and heritage in relation to cultural developments in Western countries.
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