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Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms were used by translators of censored texts, including the bible. Only at times in history when texts of enormous cultural importance were kept out of circulation, including our own time, does this vocabulary emerge. Using sources from Anonymous’s Fawkes mask to William Tyndale’s Bible prefaces, Medieval Hackers demonstrates why we should watch for this language when it turns up in our media today. This is important work in media archaeology, for as Kennedy writes in this book, the “effluorescence of intellectual piracy” in our current moment of political and technological revolutions “cannot help but draw us to look back and see that the enforcement of intellectual property in the face of traditional information culture has occurred before….We have seen that despite the radically different stakes involved, in the late Middle Ages, law texts traced the same trajectory as religious texts. In the end, perhaps religious texts serve as cultural bellwethers for the health of the information commons in all areas. As unlikely as it might seem, we might consider seriously the import of an animatronic [John] Wyclif, gesturing us to follow him on a (potentially doomed) quest to preserve the information commons.
Hacking. --- Hackers. --- Intellectual property. --- Information commons. --- medieval history --- information commons --- hacktivism --- media archeology --- intellectual property --- media studies --- Renaissance history --- medieval history --- information commons --- hacktivism --- media archeology --- intellectual property --- media studies --- Renaissance history
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Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms were used by translators of censored texts, including the bible. Only at times in history when texts of enormous cultural importance were kept out of circulation, including our own time, does this vocabulary emerge. Using sources from Anonymous’s Fawkes mask to William Tyndale’s Bible prefaces, Medieval Hackers demonstrates why we should watch for this language when it turns up in our media today. This is important work in media archaeology, for as Kennedy writes in this book, the “effluorescence of intellectual piracy” in our current moment of political and technological revolutions “cannot help but draw us to look back and see that the enforcement of intellectual property in the face of traditional information culture has occurred before….We have seen that despite the radically different stakes involved, in the late Middle Ages, law texts traced the same trajectory as religious texts. In the end, perhaps religious texts serve as cultural bellwethers for the health of the information commons in all areas. As unlikely as it might seem, we might consider seriously the import of an animatronic [John] Wyclif, gesturing us to follow him on a (potentially doomed) quest to preserve the information commons.
Hacking. --- Hackers. --- Intellectual property. --- Information commons. --- medieval history --- information commons --- hacktivism --- media archeology --- intellectual property --- media studies --- Renaissance history
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Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms were used by translators of censored texts, including the bible. Only at times in history when texts of enormous cultural importance were kept out of circulation, including our own time, does this vocabulary emerge. Using sources from Anonymous’s Fawkes mask to William Tyndale’s Bible prefaces, Medieval Hackers demonstrates why we should watch for this language when it turns up in our media today. This is important work in media archaeology, for as Kennedy writes in this book, the “effluorescence of intellectual piracy” in our current moment of political and technological revolutions “cannot help but draw us to look back and see that the enforcement of intellectual property in the face of traditional information culture has occurred before….We have seen that despite the radically different stakes involved, in the late Middle Ages, law texts traced the same trajectory as religious texts. In the end, perhaps religious texts serve as cultural bellwethers for the health of the information commons in all areas. As unlikely as it might seem, we might consider seriously the import of an animatronic [John] Wyclif, gesturing us to follow him on a (potentially doomed) quest to preserve the information commons.
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The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for city's subsequent development. The Virtues of Economy examines the transformation of Rome's governing elites as a result of changes in the city's economic, political, and spiritual landscape.Palmer explores this shift through the history of Roman political society, its identity as an urban commune, and its once-and-future role as the spiritual capital of Latin Christendom. Tracing the contours of everyday Roman politics, The Virtues of Economy reframes the reestablishment of papal sovereignty in Rome as the product of synergy between papal ambitions and local political culture. More broadly, Palmer emphasizes Rome's distinct role in evolution of medieval Italy's city-communes.
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This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus' final years.
Christian. --- Church. --- Collected Works of Erasmus. --- Desiderius Erasmus. --- Ecclesiastes. --- Erasmus. --- Luther. --- Netherlands. --- Renaissance history. --- death. --- early modern history. --- philosophy. --- religious civil war. --- theology.
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Science [Renaissance ] --- History --- Science --- History --- 17th century --- Science --- History --- 18th century --- Medicine --- 15th-18th centuries --- Literature and science --- Science, Renaissance - History.
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L'étude de l'Ars de Priscien, débutée discrètement dans les Îles britanniques au VIIe siècle, a occupé une position essentielle dans la formation médiévale. Sous l'impulsion d'Alcuin, elle a ouvert de nouvelles perspectives aux réflexions grammaticales pour des générations d'écolâtres. Les plus anciens témoins manuscrits de l'Ars attestent que les innombrables explications notées en marges ont tenu un rôle capital dans la transmission du savoir. Le présent volume décrit le contexte pédagogique et plus largement le milieu culturel dans lequel s'insère l'étude de la grammaire dans le haut Moyen Âge, et s'attache tout spécialement à dégager les étapes de sa réception dans les monastères, d'abord sous l'angle des livres qui la transmettent, puis de celui des maîtres qui les ont utilisés. À cet effet, les gloses constituent des témoignages fondamentaux qui font l'objet d'une triple enquête : typologique, textuelle et historique. Les gloses présentées ici dévoilent les rouages intimes d'un monde scolaire en constant renouvellement. Elles font la lumière sur les patients travaux des maîtres carolingiens, qui ont minutieusement décortiqué le texte complexe de Priscien. Elles montrent l'élaboration d'une méthodologie promise à un brillant avenir. Et si les Carolingiens se sont attachés surtout aux seize premiers livres, ils n'en ont pas moins préparé le terrain d'une seconde réception, qui placera, dès la fin du XIe siècle, les deux derniers livres sur la syntaxe au centre des débats scolastiques.
Middle Ages. --- Renaissance. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Priscian --- Early works to 1500 --- Ouvrages avant 1500 --- Priscian, --- Medieval & Renaissance History (c.400-1500) --- Medieval Latin language --- Grammar --- Didactics of primary education --- Latin language --- Latin (Langue) --- Grammaire --- Civilization, Medieval - Europe
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In the months covered by this volume, Erasmus experienced sharply deteriorating health and thoughts of approaching death, although he remained active in the promotion of good causes and the defence of his good name. The seemingly imminent threat of religious civil war in Germany affected Erasmus in two ways. First, he made up his mind to leave Germany and return to his native Brabant. However, the arrival in 1533 of a formal invitation from Queen Mary, regent of the Netherlands, coincided with the onset of chronic ill health that would last until the end of his life. Repeated postponements eventually led to an abandonment of the journey altogether. Second, Erasmus did what he could to promote the cause of religious unity. In On Mending the Peace of the Church he urged rulers to enact moderate reforms that would satisfy all parties and avoid confessional division. When Martin Luther responded to this attempt at a "middle path" between "truth and error" in his Letter Concerning Erasmus of Rotterdam (1534), denouncing Erasmus as a skeptic and not a Christian, Erasmus responded indignantly with his Purgation against the Slanderous Letter of Luther. Erasmus’ only other work published in this period turned out to be one of his most popular, On Preparing for Death.
Humanists --- Correspondence. --- Erasmus, Desiderius, --- Christian. --- Church. --- Collected Works of Erasmus. --- Desiderius Erasmus. --- Erasmus. --- Germany. --- Luther. --- Netherlands. --- Queen Mary. --- Renaissance history. --- Rotterdam. --- death. --- early modern history. --- philosophy. --- religious civil war.
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The humanist perception of fourteenth-century Rome as a slumbering ruin awaiting the Renaissance and the return of papal power has cast a long shadow on the historiography of the city. Challenging this view, James A. Palmer argues that Roman political culture underwent dramatic changes in the late Middle Ages, with profound and lasting implications for city's subsequent development. The Virtues of Economy examines the transformation of Rome's governing elites as a result of changes in the city's economic, political, and spiritual landscape.Palmer explores this shift through the history of Roman political society, its identity as an urban commune, and its once-and-future role as the spiritual capital of Latin Christendom. Tracing the contours of everyday Roman politics, The Virtues of Economy reframes the reestablishment of papal sovereignty in Rome as the product of synergy between papal ambitions and local political culture. More broadly, Palmer emphasizes Rome's distinct role in evolution of medieval Italy's city-communes.
Political culture --- Christianity and politics --- Papacy --- Papacy --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome (Italy) --- History --- Politics and government. --- Medieval History, Renaissance History, religious History, documentary culture/practice, urban history.
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Philosophy of language --- Theory of knowledge --- Proposition (Logic) --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Scholasticism --- Humanism --- Humanists --- History --- -Humanists --- -Philosophy, Renaissance --- -Proposition (Logic) --- -Scholasticism --- -Theology, Scholastic --- Philosophy --- Language and logic --- Logic --- Philosophy, Modern --- Renaissance philosophy --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholars --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Humanists. --- History. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- -History --- Proposition (Logic) - History --- Philosophy, Renaissance - History --- Scholasticism - History --- Humanism - History
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