Jankovic, Vladimir  | University of Chicago Press

62,010원  | 20010401  | 9780226392165

List of FiguresList of BoxesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Imperfect MixturesMeteorologicaEarly modern meteorsA dominion of exhalations2. Observing the ExtraordinaryWonders, marvels, and ominous meteors"Vulgar Baconians"Rehabilitating the unusual3....

 | Routledge

89,070원  | 20141030  | 9781409451563

Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different ways that male practitioners were summoned to such occasions, the functioning of voluntary hospitals, the protocols underlying patient records.

 | Princeton Univ Pr

139,680원  | 20140714  | 9780691603049

Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges.

 | University of Chicago Press

151,190원  | 20010101  | 9780226392158

List of FiguresList of BoxesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Imperfect MixturesMeteorologicaEarly modern meteorsA dominion of exhalations2. Observing the ExtraordinaryWonders, marvels, and ominous meteors"Vulgar Baconians"Rehabilitating the unusual3....