Author: Jean Salem File Type: epub Parmi les Anciens, Democrite, Epicure et Lucrece ont eu le genie de professer que lunivers entier est une sorte dimmense Lego ! Ils enseignerent que letre est un et, tout a la fois, sporadique que la naissance est composition et la mort desagregation que de minuscules elements de construction, lesquels, pris un a un, sont eternels et immodifiables, se combinent puis se dissocient au gre de leur agitation incessante dans le vide immense. Epicure et Lucrece, son plus grand disciple romain, furent en outre deux maitres de volupte beaucoup plus que chez Democrite, la philosophie des atomes a chez eux partie liee avec la poursuite du plaisir quils identifient au bien souverain. A ce titre, ils sont resolument modernes. Comme ils le sont aussi quand ils annoncent que, dans un univers dont la Providence est exclue, dans ce Lego fait de corpuscules insensibles, chacun pourra mesurer le neant des fables qui agitent les mortels, labsurdite des mythes relatifs aux chatiments infernaux et, ainsi, parvenir a lidee quil est possible datteindre un bonheur intense, durable et parfait, dans les limites de la vie terrestre. Edition revue et corrigee 2013

Author: Elisheva Baumgarten File Type: epub From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of political, cultural, and intellectual changes in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. These were informed by, and in turn informed, the religious communities from which they arose. In city streets and government buildings, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived, worked, and disputed with one another, sharing and shaping their respective cultures in the process. The interaction born of these relationships between minority and majority cultures, from love and friendship to hostility and violence, can be described as a complex and irreducible entanglement. The contributors to Entangled Histories Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century argue that this admixture of persecution and cooperation was at the foundation of Jewish experience in the Middle Ages. The thirteen essays are organized into three major sections, focusing in turn on the exchanges among intellectual communities, on the interactions between secular and religious authorities, and on the transmission of texts and ideas across geographical, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. Rather than trying to resolve the complexities of entanglement, contributors seek to outline their contours and explain how they endured. In the process, they examine relationships not only among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities but also between communities within Judaismthose living under Christian rule and those living under Muslim rule, and between the Jews of southern and northern Europe. The resulting volume develops a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual exchange coincided with heightened interfaith animosity. Contributors Elisheva Baumgarten, Piero Capelli, Mordechai Z. Cohen, Judah Galinsky, Elisabeth Hollender, Kati Ihnat, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Katelyn Mesler, Ruth Mazo Karras, Sarah J. Pearce, Rami Reiner, Yossef Schwartz, Uri Shachar, Rebecca Winer, Luke Yarbrough. **Review In very large measure, the studies that comprise Entangled Histories are innovative and impressive often they are genuinely exceptional. The perspective, quality, and originality of these essays will render the book important and attractive even to scholars who are thoroughly conversant with the literature.David Berger, Yeshiva University This is a well-conceived and compelling volume that contributes beyond the sum of its component parts. The range of topics considered makes a strong case for the distinctive color of the thirteenth-century Jewish experience.Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University About the Author Elisheva Baumgarten is Professor Yitzhak Becker Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Ruth Mazo Karras is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Unmarriages Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages and From Boys to Men Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe, , and coeditor of Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Katelyn Mesler is a postdoctoral fellow at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat in Munster.

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Author: Paul; Hopkins, D. Hammond File Type: epub This volume completes the five-volume Longman Annotated Poets Edition of the poems of John Dryden, the major poet of Restoration England. It provides a modernized text along with full explanatory annotation. The poems include Drydens spirited translation from Ovid, Homer, Chaucer, and Boccaccio.This volume presents, in newly-edited texts and with a substantial editorial commentary, the complete non-dramatic poetry of John Drydens later years. It contains the full text of Drydens final collection, Fables Ancient and Modern, including its prose Dedication and Preface, together with a number of other poems of the late 1690s, and some posthumously published items.