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Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature / C. A. Patrides.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 771Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691614182
  • 9781400856367
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.05 19
LOC classification:
  • DA320
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- To the Reader -- Abbreviations -- 1. "Quaterniond into their celestiall Princedoms": The Orders of the Angels -- 2. "Ascending by Degrees Magnificent": Connections Between Heaven and Earth -- 3. "The Exact Compute of Time": Estimates of the Year of Creation -- 4. "Those mysterious things they observe in numbers": Approaches to Numerology -- 5. "With his face towards Heaven": The Upright Form of Man -- 6. "The first promise made to man": The Edenic Origins of Protestantism -- 7. "That great and indisputable miracle": The Cessation of the Oracles -- 8. "The beast with many heads": Views on the Multitude -- 9. "The bloody and cruell Turke": The Judgments of God in History -- 10. "A palpable hieroglyphick": The Fable of Pope Joan -- 11. "A horror beyond our expression": The Dimensions of Hell -- 12. "A Principle of infinite Love": The Salvation of Satan -- Index nominum -- Index rerum
Summary: In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "from the Mushrome to the Angels" or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creation to the Last Judgment.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- To the Reader -- Abbreviations -- 1. "Quaterniond into their celestiall Princedoms": The Orders of the Angels -- 2. "Ascending by Degrees Magnificent": Connections Between Heaven and Earth -- 3. "The Exact Compute of Time": Estimates of the Year of Creation -- 4. "Those mysterious things they observe in numbers": Approaches to Numerology -- 5. "With his face towards Heaven": The Upright Form of Man -- 6. "The first promise made to man": The Edenic Origins of Protestantism -- 7. "That great and indisputable miracle": The Cessation of the Oracles -- 8. "The beast with many heads": Views on the Multitude -- 9. "The bloody and cruell Turke": The Judgments of God in History -- 10. "A palpable hieroglyphick": The Fable of Pope Joan -- 11. "A horror beyond our expression": The Dimensions of Hell -- 12. "A Principle of infinite Love": The Salvation of Satan -- Index nominum -- Index rerum

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In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "from the Mushrome to the Angels" or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creation to the Last Judgment.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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