The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe Anthony Graft torrent

"The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe" focuses
on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or
group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion
or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider
how the passing of historical information is an organic
process that allows for the transformation of previously
accepted truth.The volume covers a broad and fascinating
scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony
Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius
of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical
revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus
helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph
Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles
Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of
French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the
legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients
to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and
Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against
female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts
in English moral values.

The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe
Anthony Grafton
ISBN13: 9780812216677
Format: PDF
Language: EN
Pages: 335