Search Results for materialism of Lucretius

...Mary Trull Lucy Hutchinson's epic Genesis poem, Order and Disorder: Or, The World Made and Undone (1679), views humanity's place in the natural world through both John Calvin's providential theology and Lucretius's materialism in his ancient Roman epic, De rerum natura . Hutchinson reads...

... particular attention to poetic treatments of the mortal soul in Lucretius, Marlowe, Milton, and Dryden. Duke University Press 2010 a Dead Souls and Modern Minds? Mortalism and the Early...

... in Medieval Cultures. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2021. 489 pp., 5 illus. $99.00, paper $24.95. Hock, Jessie. The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 234 pp. $59.95. Keefe, Beatrice Radden. The Illustrated Afterlife...

..., in their telling, a material form one has ownership over; the production of the child becomes the source of the mother s agency and authority. Motherhood yields female empower- ment, as the creation of male children compensates for Eve s sin. This narra- tive closely resembles the biblical version of events...

... than that will shew.”2 Let’s imagine that you are living in seventeenth-­century Hackney, as Woolley was when she wrote A Supplement. To follow her instructions you can start by leafing through books and other printed material at home (do ask before you cut into anything that is not your...

... by Ronsard say “the earth is diminished and grows again,” and “all things gradually decay and go to the reef of destruction, outworn by the ancient lapse of years.”57 These last lines, at the end of Lucretius’s second book, come in the context of a 366 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies...

... to explain permutations draws on a long history: the link between alphabets and combinations can be traced at least as far back as Lucretius for whom letters, like atoms, were elements to be reordered to describe, or create, the world. An anagram was, as William Camden explained, “a dissolution...

... Clare. The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an Age of Inno- vation. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 277 pp.; 4 figs. $65.00. Lezra, Jacques, and Liza Blake, eds. Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters across Time and Disciplines. The New Antiquity...

... substantial material investment in their churches. So, against the Dickensian model, the medieval church is the people’s Church, not an alien and terrify- ing incrustation on their lives. It is this flourishing Church that was attacked by a tiny coterie of Protestants around Henry VIII and Edward VI...

.... Collecting across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xvi, 363 pp.; 65 illus., 12 color plates. $49.95. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines  647...

...: Reception, Legacy, Transformation. History of Science and Medicine Library, vol. 45. Medieval and Early Modern Science, vol. 23. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiii, 433 pp.; 9 figs. $205.00. Palmer, Ada. Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, Mass...

... monarchy. 17 Distinct from this formation, more radical thinkers proposed that no force outside of nature itself bore upon material existence. This materialist or pantheist creed carried “political corollaries” including “republican principles of government” and, crucially, the need for a civic...

...Jean Balsamo The editorial process of a book's production—far from a minor material detail in its formation or an anecdotal event of publishing history—constitutes a meaningful aspect of its elaboration as a literary work, as significant as the author's biography. Indeed, book history...

... (1665 67). These circumstances, this essay will argue, influenced the ways in which he edited the materials that passed between the English diplomats and the tsar s court. Marvell s papers in Moscow include substantial material that does not feature in Miège s account. Miège s text...

... modern cross-­ dressing is a new crucial category in our taxonomy of Reformation Europe, so should tax rolls be, so should material cultures of painting, pottery, and poetry. Then, so argues Gregory (albeit in an indirect fashion), religious doc- trine and praxis should be reassigned the requisite...

... of shamelessness has a precise and fairly stable sense from antiquity through the Enlightenment; that this sense differs materially from what modern readers and scholars typically suppose it to be; that the accusation persists now, though under a different verbal formula; and that its persistence is unsurprising...

... sixteenth century, more traditional notions about the corpse and its relation to the solving of a crime persisted, particularly in relationship to the belief — articulated in texts that reached from Aristotle and Lucretius down to Marsilio Ficino — that the corpse of the victim, at least...