Author: Asaph Ben-Tov
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) studies of the richly documented life and work of a lesser-known seventeenth-century orientalist, setting them within the broader intellectual, confessional, and institutional contexts of his day.
Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668)
Author: Asaph Ben-Tov
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) studies of the richly documented life and work of a lesser-known seventeenth-century orientalist, setting them within the broader intellectual, confessional, and institutional contexts of his day.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) studies of the richly documented life and work of a lesser-known seventeenth-century orientalist, setting them within the broader intellectual, confessional, and institutional contexts of his day.
1668
Author: Peter Sahlins
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1935408275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1935408275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At the center of the Year of the Animal was the Royal Menagerie in the gardens of Versailles, dominated by exotic and graceful birds. In the remarkable unfolding of his original and sophisticated argument, Sahlins shows how the animal bodies of the menagerie and others (such as the dogs and lambs of the first xenotransfusion experiments) were critical to a dramatic rethinking of governance, nature, and the human. The animals of 1668 helped to shift an entire worldview in France — what Sahlins calls Renaissance humanimalism — toward more modern expressions of Classical naturalism and mechanism. In the wake of 1668 came the debasement of animals and the strengthening of human animality, including in Descartes’s animal-machine, highly contested during the Year of the Animal. At the same time, Louis XIV and his intellectual servants used the animals of Versailles to develop and then to transform the symbolic language of French absolutism. Louis XIV came to adopt a model of sovereignty after 1668 where his absolute authority is represented in manifold ways with the bodies of animals and justified by the bestial nature of his human subjects. 1668: The Year of the Animal in France explores and reproduces the king’s animal collections — in printed text, weaving, poetry, and engraving, all seen from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. Sahlins brings the animals of 1668 together and to life as he observes them critically in their native habitats — within the animal palace itself by Louis Le Vau, the paintings and tapestries of Charles Le Brun, the garden installations of André Le Nôtre, the literary work of Charles Perrault and the natural history of his brother Claude, the poetry of Madeleine de Scudéry, the philosophy of René Descartes, the engravings of Sébastien Leclerc, the trans_fusion experiments of Jean Denis, and others. The author joins the non_human and human agents of 1668 — panthers and painters, swans and scientists, weasels and weavers — in a learned and sophisticated treatment that will engage scholars and students of early modern France and Europe and readers broadly interested in the subject of animals in human history.
Publications
Author: Parish Register Society, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Registers of the Parish of Llansannan 1667-1812
Author: Llansannan, Wales (Parish)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Llansannan (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Llansannan (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Reports
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
(The) Registers of Glasbury, Breconshire
Author: Glasbury, Wales (Parish)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptismal records
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of New York for the Year ...
Author: New York (State). Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.
The Dispensatory of the United States of America
Author: George Bacon Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dispensatories
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dispensatories
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description