How the west was won essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /
How the west was won essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger / [electronic resource] :
edited by Willemien Otten, Arjo Vanderjagt, Hent de Vries.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- xxv, 420 p. : ill.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 188 0920-8607 ; .
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 188. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco ..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / The monastic challenge : remarks / Peter Cramer -- Frans-Willem Korsten -- Ernst van den Hemel -- Anselm Haverkamp -- Joke Spaans -- Alastair Hamilton -- Madeleine Kasten -- Piet de Roy -- Rokus de Groot -- Peter Raedts -- Irene Zwiep -- Leen Spruit -- Willemien Otten -- Asja Szafraniec -- Paola Marrati -- Hent de Vries -- Giselle de Nie -- Bram Kempers -- Bernard McGinn -- Marcia L. Colish -- Babette Hellemans -- Ineke van 't Spijker -- Arjo Vanderjagt -- Helmut Kohlenberger.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9789004184978 (electronic bk.)
Christian literature.
Christianity and literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Canon (Literature)
Europe--Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
BR53 / .H59 2010
270.5
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco ..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / The monastic challenge : remarks / Peter Cramer -- Frans-Willem Korsten -- Ernst van den Hemel -- Anselm Haverkamp -- Joke Spaans -- Alastair Hamilton -- Madeleine Kasten -- Piet de Roy -- Rokus de Groot -- Peter Raedts -- Irene Zwiep -- Leen Spruit -- Willemien Otten -- Asja Szafraniec -- Paola Marrati -- Hent de Vries -- Giselle de Nie -- Bram Kempers -- Bernard McGinn -- Marcia L. Colish -- Babette Hellemans -- Ineke van 't Spijker -- Arjo Vanderjagt -- Helmut Kohlenberger.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9789004184978 (electronic bk.)
Christian literature.
Christianity and literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Canon (Literature)
Europe--Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
BR53 / .H59 2010
270.5