From Florence to the Heavenly City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Florence to the Heavenly City write by ClaireE. Honess. This book was released on 2017-07-05. From Florence to the Heavenly City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies, yet the poet's political views have traditionally been considered a self-contained area of study and viewed in isolation from the poet's other concerns. Consequently, the symbolic and poetic values which Dante attaches to political structures have been largely ignored or marginalised by Dante criticism. This omission is addressed here by Claire Honess, whose study of Dante's poetry of citizenship focuses on more fundamental issues, such as the relationship between the individual and the community, the question of what it means to be a citizen, and above all the way in which notions of cities and citizenship enter the imagery and structure of the Commedia.
From Florence to the Heavenly City
From Florence to the Heavenly City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Florence to the Heavenly City write by Claire E. Honess. This book was released on 2017-07-05. From Florence to the Heavenly City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's political thought has long constituted a major area of interest for Dante studies, yet the poet's political views have traditionally been considered a self-contained area of study and viewed in isolation from the poet's other concerns. Consequently, the symbolic and poetic values which Dante attaches to political structures have been largely ignored or marginalised by Dante criticism. This omission is addressed here by Claire Honess, whose study of Dante's poetry of citizenship focuses on more fundamental issues, such as the relationship between the individual and the community, the question of what it means to be a citizen, and above all the way in which notions of cities and citizenship enter the imagery and structure of the Commedia.
Contesting the City
Contesting the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting the City write by Christian Drummond Liddy. This book was released on 2017. Contesting the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The political narrative of late medieval English towns is often reduced to the story of the gradual intensification of oligarchy, in which power was exercised and projected by an ever smaller ruling group over an increasingly subservient urban population. Contesting the City takes its inspiration not from English historiography, but from a more dynamic continental scholarship on towns in the southern Low Countries, Germany, and France. Its premise is that scholarly debate about urban oligarchy has obscured contemporary debate about urban citizenship. It identifies from the records of English towns a tradition of urban citizenship, which did not draw upon the intellectual legacy of classical models of the 'citizen'. This was a vernacular citizenship, which was not peculiar to England, but which was present elsewhere in late medieval Europe. It was a citizenship that was defined and created through action. There were multiple, and divergent, ideas about citizenship, which encouraged townspeople to make demands, to assert rights, and to resist authority. This volume exploits the rich archival sources of the five major towns in England - Bristol, Coventry, London, Norwich, and York - in order to present a new picture of town government and urban politics over three centuries. The power of urban governors was much more precarious than historians have imagined. Urban oligarchy could never prevail - whether ideologically or in practice - when there was never a single, fixed meaning of the citizen.
The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City
The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City write by Jeremy Tambling. This book was released on 2017-02-17. The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities – whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or ‘rust-belt’ – have forced themselves on people’s ways of thinking and writing.
Apocalypse without God
Apocalypse without God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalypse without God write by Ben Jones. This book was released on 2022-04-21. Apocalypse without God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains why apocalyptic thought, despite often being dismissed as bizarre, has persistent appeal in political life.
