Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author: Margaret T. Hodgen

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0812206711

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Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back as the sixteenth century, when contact with unfamiliar peoples in the New World led Europeans to create ways of describing and understanding social similarities and differences among humans. Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today.

Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author: Constance Blackwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 695

ISBN-13: 1351911384

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This volume offers an important re-evaluation of early modern philosophy. It takes issue with the received notion of a ’revolution’ in philosophical thought in the 17th-century, making the case for treating the 16th and 17th centuries together. Taking up Charles Schmitt’s formulation of the many ’Aristotelianisms’ of the period, the papers bring out the variety and richness of the approaches to Aristotle, rather than treating his as a homogeneous system of thought. Based on much new research, they provide case studies of how philosophers used, developed, and reacted to the framework of Aristotelian logic, categories and distinctions, and demonstrate that Aristotelianism possessed both the flexibility and the dynamism to exert a continuing impact - even among such noted ’anti-Aristotelians’ as Descartes and Hobbes. This constant engagement can indeed be termed ’conversations with Aristotle’.

Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France

Author: Sharon Kettering

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1040245382

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The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an overview of the scholarly literature and suggest that the obligatory reciprocity of the patron-client exchange was a defining characteristic. The third and fourth essays compare patronage relationships with kinship and friendship, while the following two focus on the patronage role of noblewomen. Professor Kettering then looks at the role of brokerage in state formation in early modern France, comparing this with other early modern societies. In the final section she explores the role of patronage in the religious wars of the late 16th century and in the civil war of the Fronde a half century later, and the ways in which it was affected by the changing lifestyles of the great nobles during the late 17th century.

The Book Triumphant
The Book Triumphant

Author: Malcolm Walsby

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 9004207236

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This edited collection presents new research on the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, addressing themes such as the Reformation, the transmission of texts and the production and sale of printed books.

Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author: David C. Bellusci

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2013-06-10

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9401209456

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Amor Dei, “love of God” raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God’s love. The work begins with Augustine’s Confessions highlighting his Manichean and Neoplatonic periods before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine’s confrontation with Pelagius anticipates the unresolved disputes concerning God’s love and free will. In the sixteenth-century the Italian humanist, Gasparo Contarini introduces the notion of “divine amplitude” to demonstrate how God’s goodness is manifested in the human agent. Pierre de Bérulle, Guillaume Gibieuf, and Nicolas Malebranche show connections with Contarini in the seventeenth-century controversies relating free will and divine love. In response to the free will dispute, the Scottish philosopher, William Chalmers, offers his solution. Cornelius Jansen relentlessly asserts his anti-Pelagian interpretation of Augustine stirring up more controversy. John Norris, Malebranche’s English disciple, exchanges his views with Mary Astell and Damaris Masham. In the tradition of Cambridge Platonism, Ralph Cudworth conveys a God who “sweetly governs.” The organization of sections represents the love of God in ascending-descending movements demonstrating that, “human love is inseparable from divine love.”

Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe
Witchcraft and Magic in 16th and 17th-Century Europe

Author: Geoffrey Scarre

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1996-08-15

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780333399330

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In his study of witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th century Europe, Geoffrey Scarre provides an examination of the theoretical and intellectual rationales which made prosecution for the crime acceptable to the continent's judiciaries.

The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author: Gábor Kármán

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-06-20

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 9004254404

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The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire is the first comprehensive overview of the empire’s relationship to its various European tributaries, Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate and the Cossack Hetmanate. The volume focuses on three fundamental aspects of the empire’s relationship with these polities: the various legal frameworks which determined their positions within the imperial system, the diplomatic contacts through which they sought to influence the imperial center, and the military cooperation between them and the Porte. Bringing together studies by eminent experts and presenting results of several less-known historiographical traditions, this volume contributes significantly to a deeper understanding of Ottoman power at the peripheries of the empire.

Religion and the Decline of Magic
Religion and the Decline of Magic

Author: Keith Thomas

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2003-01-30

Total Pages: 853

ISBN-13: 0141932406

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Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.