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The Primacy of the Postils

Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany

By: John M. Frymire

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The Primacy of the Postils

Catholics, Protestants, and the Dissemination of Ideas in Early Modern Germany

By: John M. Frymire

Scholarship on the German Reformation has long equated preaching with Protestantism, just as many scholars have employed sermons but usually in supplemental and unsystematic ways. Based on an analysis of over 400 standard sermon collections (postils) produced by Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists (1520-1620), this study offers the first comprehensive, systematic presentation of these works from a cross-confessional perspective. It lays to rest the notion that preaching was somehow distinctively Protestant while tracing the creation, production, use, and censorship of postils. These sermon collections were nothing less than the applied distillation of Christianity delivered on a regular basis by the clergy to the laity, and as such the most important vehicle for the dissemination of ideas in early modern Germany.

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BRILL

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9004183604

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9789004183605

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

A Bio-bibliographical Handbook

By: John Flood

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Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

A Bio-bibliographical Handbook

By: John Flood

Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period. A supplementary Volume 5 of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook will be published in June 2019.

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2800

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110912740

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9783110912746

The Types of Genesis. As Revealing the Development of Human Nature

By: Andrew John Jukes

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The Types of Genesis. As Revealing the Development of Human Nature

By: Andrew John Jukes

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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458

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385364795

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9783385364790

Workhorses of the Big Four

Steam's Final Fling

By: John Evans

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Steam's Final Fling

By: John Evans

John Evans explores the key locomotives involved in the last days of steam.

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215

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445655039

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9781445655031

Heresy in Transition

Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: John Christian Laursen,Cary J. Nederman

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Heresy in Transition

Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

By: John Christian Laursen,Cary J. Nederman

The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern times, however, the perception of heresy underwent a profound transformation, ultimately leading to its decriminalization and the emergence of a pluralistic religious outlook. The essays in this volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood cultural shift. Half of the chapters investigate the manner in which the church and its attendant civil authorities defined and proscribed heresy, whilst the other half focus on the means by which early modern writers sought to supersede such definition and proscription. The result of these investigations is a multifaceted historical account of the construction and serial reconstruction of one of the key categories of European theological, juristic and political thought. The contributors explore the role of nationalism and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the responses to heresy. In doing so they provide fascinating insights into the roots of the historicization of heresy and the role of this historicization in the emergence of religious pluralism.

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253

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Routledge

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1317122461

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9781317122463

New Directions in Social Theory, Education and Embodiment

By: John Evans,Brian Davies

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New Directions in Social Theory, Education and Embodiment

By: John Evans,Brian Davies

This book exemplifies the nurturing spirit of inter-discursive debate with a view to opening up new theoretical and empirical insights, understanding, and engagement, with debates on issues relating to pedagogy, policy, equity and embodiment. From a variety of social science perspectives, an international force of contributors apply a multitude of concepts to research agendas which illustrate the multiple ways in which ‘the body’ both impacts culture and is simultaneously and seamlessly positioned and shaped by it, maintaining social reproduction of class and cultural hierarchies and social regulation and control. They attest that once we begin to trace the flow of knowledge and discourses across continents, countries, regions and communities by registering their re-contextualisation, both within various popular pedagogies (e.g., newspapers, film, TV, web pages, IT) and the formal and informal practices of schools, families and peers, we are compelled to appreciate the bewildering complexity of subjectivity and the ways in which it is embodied. Indeed, the chapters suggest that no matter how hegemonic or ubiquitous discursive practices may be, they inevitably tend to generate both intended and unexpected ‘affects’ and ‘effects’: people and populations cannot easily be ‘determined’, suppressed or controlled. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Education and Society.

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168

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Routledge

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1317849809

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9781317849803

Shakespeare's Originality

By: John Kerrigan

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Shakespeare's Originality

By: John Kerrigan

How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Originality unlocks its topic with rewarding precision and flair, showing through a series of case studies that range across the output—from the mature comedies to the great tragedies, from Richard III to The Tempest—what can be learned about the artistry of the plays by thinking about these sources (including newly identified ones) after several decades of neglect. Discussion is enriched by such matters as Elizabethan ruffs and feathers, actors' footwork, chronicle history, modern theatre productions, debts to classical tragedy, scepticism, magic and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This is authoritative, lively work by one of the world's leading Shakespearians, accessible to the general reader as well as indispensable for students.

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182

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Oxford University Press

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019251251X

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The Politics of Affective Societies

An Interdisciplinary Essay

By: Jonas Bens,Aletta Diefenbach,Thomas John,Antje Kahl,Hauke Lehmann,Matthias Lüthjohann,Friederike Oberkrome,Hans Roth,Gabriel Scheidecker,Gerhard Thonhauser,Nur Yasemin Ural,Dina Wahba,Robert Walter-Jochum,M. Ragip Zik

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The Politics of Affective Societies

An Interdisciplinary Essay

Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to understand and unpack these shifts. They propose, instead, to reframe this debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies, which highlights how affect and emotion are present in all aspects of the social. What changes over time and place are the modes and calibrations of affective and emotional registers. With this line of thinking, the authors are able to gesture towards a new outline of the political.

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129

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transcript Verlag

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3839447623

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9783839447628

Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining

By: John Robertson

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Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining

By: John Robertson

This book describes techniques and results in cyber threat intelligence from the center of the malicious hacking underworld - the dark web.

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149

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Cambridge University Press

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1107185777

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9781107185777

Time Mastery

How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader

By: John Clemens,Scott Dalrymple

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Time Mastery

How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader

By: John Clemens,Scott Dalrymple

The new leadership skill: making time an ally, not an enemy.

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232

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Amacom Books

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0814428886

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9780814428887

Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries

By: John Considine

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Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries

By: John Considine

This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languages that gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, and culturally significant lexicographical output before. The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention to records of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world.

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Oxford University Press

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0192568299

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Lost Storytellers

The Information Apocalypse in the Modern Newsroom

By: John Pendygraft

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Lost Storytellers

The Information Apocalypse in the Modern Newsroom

By: John Pendygraft

Community journalism in the era of clickbait An incisive and firsthand look at the landscape of community news today, Lost Storytellers argues that the decline of local journalism threatens the future of democracy. Award-winning photojournalist John Pendygraft asks: How did Americans lose trust in the media, and how can their local newsrooms earn it back? Pendygraft uses his own experiences at Florida’s largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, to illustrate why trusted local reporting matters more than ever in the era of “fake news,” clickbait, conspiracy theories, and social media. Through interviews with his colleagues, the history of his own paper, journeys into the evolutionary psychology of storytelling, and examples of the ways multinational media conglomerates hook readers on news cycles of chaos and crisis, Pendygraft argues that community journalists can reclaim their roles as local storytellers—and that the public good demands that they try. Lost Storytellers offers insights for all who feel confused about the media, politics, and the well-being of their communities in the information age.

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University Press of Florida

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0813072328

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The Primacy of the Postils

The Primacy of the Postils

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

The Types of Genesis. As Revealing the Development of Human Nature

The Types of Genesis. As Revealing the Development of Human Nature

Workhorses of the Big Four

Workhorses of the Big Four

Heresy in Transition

Heresy in Transition

New Directions in Social Theory, Education and Embodiment

New Directions in Social Theory, Education and Embodiment

Shakespeare's Originality

Shakespeare's Originality

The Politics of Affective Societies

The Politics of Affective Societies

Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining

Darkweb Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining

Time Mastery

Time Mastery

Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries

Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries

Lost Storytellers

Lost Storytellers

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