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Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language (Hardcover, New edition): Paolo Rossi Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language (Hardcover, New edition)
Paolo Rossi; Translated by Stephen Clucas
R5,547 Discovery Miles 55 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a translation of Rossi's account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination

John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Stephen Clucas John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Stephen Clucas
R5,655 Discovery Miles 56 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields - intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies - we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee's career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee's activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and render them more historiographically legible.

A Princely Brave Woman - Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Paperback): Stephen Clucas A Princely Brave Woman - Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Paperback)
Stephen Clucas
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2003. This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish's output - which included poetry, drama, prose fictions, orations, and natural philosophy - these essays re-assess Cavendish's place in seventeenth- century literature and philosophy. Whilst approaching Cavendish's work from a range of critical (and disciplinary) perspectives, the authors of these essays are united in their commitment to recovering her writings from their frequent characterisation as "eccentric" or "idiosyncratic", and aim to present her work as historically legible within the cultural contexts in which they were written. The "Mad Madge" of literary legend and tradition is re-written as a bold, innovative and experimental creator of a female authorial voice, and as a thinker vitally in contact with the intellectual currents of her age.

The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament - Literary and Historical Perspectives (Paperback): Stephen Clucas, Rosalind Davies The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament - Literary and Historical Perspectives (Paperback)
Stephen Clucas, Rosalind Davies
R1,017 Discovery Miles 10 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with constitutional and state historians to reflect on the political and ideological upheavals of Britain in 1614 from various perspectives. In the aftermath of new historicism and 'revisionist' Stuart historiography the time seems right for the detailed study of highly specific historical moments and localities, and 1614 seemed particularly in need of renewed attention because few traditional historians have seriously addressed the constitutional crisis of the ill-fated parliament of that year. Literary historians, too, seemed to have failed to bring this significant political moment into focus, despite the fact that there were many literary interventions in contemporary debates of the period. The volume investigates a number of key issues of this decisive political watershed - and examines not only the disastrous parliament, but also wider problems connected to commerce and economics and the freedom of political debate.

A Princely Brave Woman - Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Hardcover): Stephen Clucas A Princely Brave Woman - Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Hardcover)
Stephen Clucas
R3,197 Discovery Miles 31 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2003. This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish's output - which included poetry, drama, prose fictions, orations, and natural philosophy - these essays re-assess Cavendish's place in seventeenth- century literature and philosophy. Whilst approaching Cavendish's work from a range of critical (and disciplinary) perspectives, the authors of these essays are united in their commitment to recovering her writings from their frequent characterisation as "eccentric" or "idiosyncratic", and aim to present her work as historically legible within the cultural contexts in which they were written. The "Mad Madge" of literary legend and tradition is re-written as a bold, innovative and experimental creator of a female authorial voice, and as a thinker vitally in contact with the intellectual currents of her age.

Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Hardcover, New Ed): Stephen Clucas Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Hardcover, New Ed)
Stephen Clucas
R4,176 Discovery Miles 41 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval magical traditions and how Dee's attempts to communicate with spirits were used to serve specific religious agendas in the mid-seventeenth century. The essays devoted to Giordano Bruno offer a reappraisal of the magical orientation of the Italian philosopher's mnemotechnical and Lullist writings of the 1580s and 90s and show his influence on early seventeenth-century English understandings of memory and intellection. Next come three studies on the atomistic or corpuscularian natural philosophy of the Northumberland and Cavendish circles, arguing that there was a distinct English corpuscularian tradition prior to the Gassendian influence in the 1640s and 50s. Finally, two essays on the seventeenth-century Intelligencer Samuel Hartlib and his correspondents shows how religion alchemy and natural philosophy interacted during the 'Puritan Revolution'.

John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006):... John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)
Stephen Clucas
R5,542 Discovery Miles 55 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields - intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies - we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee's career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee's activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and render them more historiographically legible.

Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed): Paolo Rossi Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed)
Paolo Rossi; Translated by Stephen Clucas
R3,080 Discovery Miles 30 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a new tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas.

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