The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity

Arndt Brendecke, Peter Vogt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2019
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Verlag)
978-3-11-066019-7 (ISBN)

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The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

Arndt Brendecke und Peter Vogt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2019
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	492 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Schlagworte	Early Modern History • Fortuna • Modernity
ISBN-10	3-11-066019-9 / 3110660199
ISBN-13	978-3-11-066019-7 / 9783110660197
Zustand	Neuware