世界建設と近代初期の想像力 World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination

Kavey, Allison B. (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2010/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 270 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230105881
• DDC分類 940.2

基本説明

This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.

Full Description

The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.

Contents

Introduction: 'Think you there was, or ever could be' a World such as this I Dreamed; A.B.Kavey Paracelsus on the 'New Creation' and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception; D.T.Daniel Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim's De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres ;  A.B.Kavey  The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler; S.J.Rabin A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher's Museum in Rome; M.A.Waddell Fantasy Islands: Utopia, The Tempest and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness; G.Giglioni Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth ; A.Coppola The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555-1634) and the Death of Prester John; M.Salvadore Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500-1668; J.De Lorenzi ''In manners they be rude, and monst'rous eke in fashion': Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama'; P.Tuite Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke's Image of Irelande (1581); V.Carey