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Poetics --- Metaphor --- Early works to 1800. --- Early works to 1800. --- Tesauro, Emanuele,

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The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album, in the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it. In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a complex visual language. Luxury armour was fitted precisely to a wearer's body, and its memorable details declared his status. Empty armour could evoke an owner's physical presence, prompting recollection of knightly personae, glittering pageantry, and impressive feats of arms. Its mnemonic power persisted long after the battle had ended, the trumpets had gone silent, and the dust had settled in the tournament arena. Previously believed to contain preliminary designs sketched by master armourers, the Thun-Hohenstein album is a bound collection of drawings by professional book painters depicting some of the most artistically and technologically innovative armours of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Like a paper version of the princely armories that first formed during the 1500s, the album's images offered rich sites of meaning and memory. Their organization within the codex suggests the images' significance to their compiler. At the same time, the composition and details allow the reader to trace the transmission of recognizable armours, and the memories they embodied, from the anvil to the page. This book is the first to examine the album, and the armor it depicts, in their vibrant artistic and cultural context. In five thematic chapters, it moves from case studies of these drawings to explore the album's complex intersections with the genres of martial history, material culture, and literature. It also reveals the album's participation in cultures of remembrance that carried mythic, knightly personae constructed around powerful Habsburg princes forward in time from the Middle Ages into the early modern era, from the courts of the Holy Roman Empire to emerging urban audiences.

Armor --- Armor in art --- History --- Early works to 1800

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This is a readable and accurate translation of 20 of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institutions and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more. Beginning with an analysis of the historical context that gave rise to Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies, Patrick Olivelle moves on to elucidate the meaning of renunciation - the central institution of holiness in most Hindu traditions - and the function and significance of the various elements that constitute the rite of renunciation. This translation will be an unparalleled source of information and insight for students of Hinduism and Indian asceticism, mysticism, and holiness.

Sannyasi --- Asceticism --- Hinduism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Ascetics --- Early works to 1800 --- Early works to 1800. --- -Sannyasi --- -Early works to 1800 --- Asceticism - - Early works to 1800 - Hinduism --- -Sannyasi - - Early works to 1800 --- Hindouisme --- Ascétisme --- Sannyāsin --- Livres sacrés

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D'où vient Dracula ? Le mythe puise dans les légendes de la vieille Europe, celles-là qui sont compilées, débattues, disséquées par Dom Calmet, érudit bénédictin du XVIIIe siècle qui consacre son grand-oeuvre à l'étude des vampires. Médecin légiste et archéoanthropologue, Philippe Charlier établit enfin l'indispensable édition scientifique d'un ouvrage clé du siècle des Lumières. Les vampires existent-ils ? Quelle valeur accorder aux récits rapportés de Hongrie, de Moravie, de Silésie ? Comment les traiter du point de vue de la raison et de la religion ? C'est la mission que se fixe Dom Augustin Calmet en étudiant les manifestations de ces non-morts. Publié en 1751, son ouvrage marque un jalon important dans l'élaboration d'un rationalisme chrétien. Philippe Charlier présente ce texte phare de l'histoire de la pensée et lui adjoint l'appareil scientifique dont il avait besoin. Il rappelle, surtout, combien la modernité ne peut être résumée au passage de l'ombre à la lumière, et combien les anciennes croyances continuent d'exercer leur pouvoir de fascination sur nos imaginaires. --

Vampires. --- Surnaturel --- Supernatural --- Early works to 1800 --- Religion --- Église catholique --- Catholic church.

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"Alors que les humanistes de la Renaissance portent sur la nature un regard nouveau, leurs écrits restent largement soumis aux autorités antiques. Parmi ces dernières, Pline tient une place à part. En effet, son œuvre soulève nombre de questions, que ce soit par les défis philologiques et terminologiques qu'elle lance aux éditeurs et traducteurs, l'étendue des connaissances qu'elle exige, la confrontation qu'elle stimule entre un savoir textuel ancien et les merveilles du monde naturel appréhendées par des témoins modernes, les tensions qui la traversent entre esprit de classification et collection d'histoires fabuleuses, ou encore l'instrumentalisation à laquelle elle se prête à des fins idéologiques. Les divers usages dont Pline fait l'objet tout au long du XVIe siècle font que son statut même de savant est contesté : serait-il un menteur, un ignorant ou un romancier ? Les contributions réunies ici cherchent à préciser certains aspects d'un héritage aussi incontournable qu'encombrant."--Page 4 of cover.

Animals in literature --- Plants in literature --- Natural history --- Early works to 1800 --- Pliny, --- Appreciation --- History --- Influence