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Fate and Fortune in European Thought, ca. 1400–1650

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-35972-7 (ISBN)

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This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.

Ovanes Akopyan is a research fellow at the University of Innsbruck. He has published extensively on Renaissance and early modern intellectual history and science, including Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2020).

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Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate

Ovanes Akopyan

Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology

1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune

John Sellars

2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate

Paul Richard Blum

3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno’s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

Elisabeth Blum

4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity

Jo Coture

Part 2: Political and Social Context

5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli’s Anatomy of the Body Politic

Guido Giglioni

6 “Fortune is a Mistresse”: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry

Orlando Reade

7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Sophie Raux

Part 3: Artistic Considerations

8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate

Damiano Acciarino

9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour

Dalia Judovitz

10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia

Ovanes Akopyan

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 327
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	627 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-35972-9 / 9004359729
ISBN-13	978-90-04-35972-7 / 9789004359727
Zustand	Neuware