David Friedrich Strauss
David Friedrich Strauss

Author: Eduard Zeller

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-03-14

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 3368810162

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived

Author: Greg Steinmetz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1451688563

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"In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. In an era when kings had unlimited power, Fugger dared to stare down heads of state and ask them to pay back their loans--with interest. It was this coolness and self-assurance, along with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not only the richest man ever, but a force of history as well. Before Fugger came along it was illegal under church law to charge interest on loans, but he got the Pope to change that. He also helped trigger the Reformation and likely funded Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. His creation of a news service gave him an information edge over his rivals and customers and earned Fugger a footnote in the history of journalism. And he took Austria’s Habsburg family from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the first empire where the sun never set."--Provided by publisher.

Ulrich Von Hutten's Arminius
Ulrich Von Hutten's Arminius

Author: Richard Ernest Walker

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9783039113385

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This is the first complete English translation of Ulrich von Hutten's Latin dialogue Arminius and Eobanus Hessus's Latin preface to its posthumous publication (1529). The translations are enhanced by extensive literary analysis in the context of social and political change in sixteenth-century Germany and German literary history. Hutten's literary role is illustrated further by discussion of his dialogue, Inspicientes, or Die Anschauenden, and by comparative analysis of Hutten-related works by Heinrich von Kleist, Die Hermannschlacht (1808), Gottfried Keller, Ufenau (1858), and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Huttens letzte Tage (1871). The study draws attention to Hutten's ethnic chauvinism, construed by later generations as German patriotism and used to endorse attitudes and prejudices alien to Hutten's original ideas. The English translations and analyses provide broader access to Hutten's writings and ideas and give insights into the links between late Roman history, society and politics in the Reformation period, and German patriotism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Nature Lost?
Nature Lost?

Author: Frederick Gregory

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780674604834

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Gregory shows that the loss of nature from theological discourse is only one reflection of the larger cultural change that marks the transition of European society from a 19th-century to a 20-century mentality, depicting varying theological responses to the growth of natural science.

Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present
Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present

Author: Jeff Diamond

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2017-06-21

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1498548903

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Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present explores a common ethical problem for intellectuals of the Renaissance: How does one win the favor and patronage of the wealthy and powerful and yet maintain one’s dignity, independence, or principles? This study examines this and similar ethical dilemmas and how they were reflected in the lives and writings of intellectuals of the period—particularly Niccolò Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Michel de Montaigne. It also places the issues within their larger social and cultural context and provides comparisons to the contemporary world.