R J W Evans

Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Marr, Alexander

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the various manifestations of, and relationships between, 'curiosity' and 'wonder' from the 16th to the 18th century. Focused case studies on texts, objects and individuals explore the multifaceted natures of these themes, highlighting the intense fascination and continuing scrutiny to which each has been subjected over three centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780754641025
• ISBN-10: 0754641023
• Artikelnr.: 44974328

Autorenporträt

R.J.W. Evans is Regius Professor of History at Oxford University, UK. Alexander Marr is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction
Alexander Marr; 'Out of the frying pan...': curiosity
danger
and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale
Wes Williams; The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany
Neil Kenny; The New World collections of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and their role in the creation of a Kunst- and Wunderkammer in the Palazzo Vecchio
Adriana Turpin; The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in 17th-century English literature
Claire Preston; Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the Occult Works of Heinrich Khunrath
Peter Forshaw; Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity': Meric Casaubon and John Dee
Stephen Clucas; Gentille curiosité: wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance
Alexander Marr; Nosce teipsum: curiosity
the humoural body
and the culture of therapeutics in late 16th- and early 17th-century England
Deborah Harkness; Back from wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749)
Paola Bertucci; Curiosity and the lusus naturae: the case of 'Proteus' Hill
George Rousseau; Epilogue
George Rousseau; Index.