Renaissance

First published in 1964, Renaissance & Seventeenth - Century Studies contains essays which fall into two groups. The first four are concerned with problems of metaphor and style and treat two important eras in literary history when these problems...

In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of...

"This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture." -James Hankins, Harvard UniversityPico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one...

A classic work of the European Enlightenment--and one of the most popular, if scandalous, in its day--the Persian Letters captures, in an engaging epistolary format, the transformational spirit of the era. Amid an ongoing tale rife with sex, violence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385196Author Ernst CassirerFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Syllogism is a form of logical argument allowing one to deduce a consistent conclusion based on a pair of premises having a common term. Although Aristotle was the first to conceive and develop this way of reasoning, he left open a lot of conceptual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385189Author Ernst CassirerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

These substantial selections from The Search after Truth , Elucidations of the Search after Truth , Dialogues on Metaphysics , and Treatise on Nature and Grace , provide the student of modern philosophy with both a broad view of Malebranche's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278654Author Saul FramptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386230Author S K HeningerFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

The first comprehensive one-volume collection of St.Thomas More's writing"[A] tremendous scholarly undertaking. . . . Accessible and transparent to both scholars and the general audience."-Renaissance and Reformation In this book, Wegemer and Smith...

Giovanni Pontano, who adopted the academic sobriquet "Gioviano," was prime minister to several kings of Naples and the most important Neapolitan humanist of the quattrocento. Best known today as a Latin poet, he also composed dialogues depicting the...

This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662...

The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual change and innovation as philosophers rediscovered the philosophy of classical antiquity and passed it on to the modern age. Renaissance philosophy is distinct both from the medieval scholasticism, based...

Occasionalism is the thesis that God alone is the true cause of everything that happens in the world, and created substances are merely "occasional causes." This doctrine was originally developed in medieval Islamic theology, and was widely rejected in...

In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579887Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579849Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579801Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782711660278Author Barbara de NegroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Librarie Philosophique J. VrinPublisher Librarie Philosophique J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538160237Author Matthew SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new...

This volume provides new translations of Rene Descartes's two most important philosophical works. The Discourse offers a concise presentation and defense of Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry - a method that greatly influenced both philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579764Author F Scott FitzgerladFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783796541926Author Christine Christ-Von-WedelFormat HardbackPage Count 177Imprint Schwabe VerlagsgruppePublisher Schwabe VerlagsgruppeWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355223517Author Michel de MontaigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 826Imprint Classy PublishingPublisher Classy PublishingWeight(grams) 1406g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579719Author James AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579733Author F Scott FitzgerladFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579726Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391316969Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Sanage Publishing House LLPPublisher Sanage Publishing House LLP

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803579795Author Jane AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Public DomainPublisher Public DomainWeight(grams) 789g

Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the early Renaissance. His Two Investigations on the Nature of the Human Soul uses Aristotle's De anima to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026889335Author Jakob BohmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 399g

First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578663876Author Andrew LinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Threefold PublishingPublisher Threefold PublishingWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm)...

The ancient topic of universals was central to scholastic philosophy, which raised the question of whether universals exist as Platonic forms, as instantiated Aristotelian forms, as concepts abstracted from singular things, or as words that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770830202Author Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Theophania PublishingPublisher Theophania PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615924502Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Wiseblood BooksPublisher Wiseblood BooksWeight(grams) 390g

Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly di"fficult to overestimate. Despite an academic career that lasted barely two decades, and numerous writings left in various states of...

Philosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century. International specialists portray the thought of twenty-one individual philosophers, illustrating their life and...