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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"frontispiece"”.
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… both of the novel’s structure and of the novel’s frontispiece in light of the political reasoning in the work.
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Artistic Achievements of Convent Women in Renaissance Italy: with case studies in Venice and Prato
… the Museo Correr in Venice and the illustrated frontispiece of Beatrice del Sera's convent play Amor di virtù (1555), preserved in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence. Both of the considered works complement a text also written by convent women during the same period that demonstrate their …
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An analysis of some of the major roles of emotion in the soteriology of John and Charles Wesley and its implications in relationship to contemporary research on emotions
… the result of passionlessness in the pulpit” (frontispiece). In other words, life is lived through emotion, and religion is expressed through emotion; therefore, passion must still be present in today’s worship and preaching in order for the Church to thrive and grow. Chapter one lays the …
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The unities of time and place in sixteenth-century theater and criticism
… encyclopedic <em>Theatrum vitae humanae </em>(frontispiece Figure I). Another notable example is the “Fabula de homine” (c. 1518) written by the humanist scholar Luis Vives. The fable is an eloquent panegyric on the sublimity of Man, his “divine mind,” bliss-giving “powers of perception,” …
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The human horse: equine husbandry, anthropomorphic hierarchies, and daily life in Lower Saxony, 1550-1735
This dissertation examines how human-animal relationships were formed through daily equine trade networks in early modern Germany. As reflections of human cultural values and experiences, these relationships had a significant impact in early modern Braunschweig-Lüneburg both on the practice of …