... Condemnations of 1277 Tempier Étienne God Lombard Peter Ockham science Sentences Book of Lombard Bible the Levi ben Gerson Paul of Burgos marvels On the Causes of Marvels Oresme Oresme Nicole Vitry Philippe de Funkenstein Amos Galileo ‘General Scholium’ Newton Newton Sir Isaac Principia...

... Robinson Crusoe Völkerschauen zoo Hamburg Franke Rudolf Pallenberg Josef Müller Carl cinematographer Navy League animalization Apulian vases Biedermeier Gerson brothers Hans Oskar later also Ernst Henneberger August hortus conclusus Marc Franz pantheism paradise putto Warburg Aby...

...In Chapter 26 of The Country Parson, “The Parson’s eye,” George Herbert makes a brief, positive reference to Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363–1429), a late medieval French Catholic theologian and Chancellor of the University of Paris, with whom the Protestant priest-poet had a good deal in common...

...) and Moralized Grammar (Donatus moralizatus) by Christian theologian Jean Gerson (d. 1429), chancellor of the University of Paris. By violating what Jacques Derrida called “the law of genre,” Qushayrī and Gerson used the genre of “spiritual grammar” to engender saintly subjects. Grammar...

... intellectual figures of the early fifteenth century, Jean Gerson, exemplifies both continuity and change. astral magic astrology Augustine of Hippo judicial astrology religion University of Paris D’Ailly Pierre Gerson Jean Pignon Laurens superstition universities witchcraft women astrological...

... exchanged letters critical of Jean de Meun's contribution to The Romance of the Rose with two French royal secretaries, Jean de Montreuil and Gontier Col. When the matter became public, Jean Gerson, one of Europe's leading theologians, supported de Pizan's arguments against de Meun...

... and professional concerns: Christine's deeply held beliefs as well as her professional preoccupations of the moment; Gerson's need, as a theologian and a high-profile preacher, to improve public morals, but also his personal foibles and obsessions; the playful humor of the protohumanist intellectuals...

...During the period 1401–1403 occurred the famous Querelle de la Rose, in which Jean Gerson, theologian and chancellor of the University of Paris, and the ‘proto-feminist’ Christine de Pizan debated with three ‘early humanists’, the Col brothers, Pierre and Gontier, and Jean de...

... Gerson, and his tumultuous journeys across Europe over the course of a dozen years provide context for understanding his place in the later Middle Ages. Jerome is an important figure in the history of Prague, Charles University, the development and shape of later medieval heresy, and the beginnings...

... Wolterstorff. A growing number of evangelical elites in the early twentieth century, including some veteran right-wing operatives like Michael Gerson, voice misgivings about the New Right alliance and the limited government ideology. The temptation to interpret these expressions as a shift in political...

... in the Roman de la Rose is to promote a less than sanguine attitude to claims that what is natural is good. Given the potential moral and spiritual repercussions of such an attitude, it is no surprise that Jean Gerson was alarmed and indignant at what Jean de Meun had done to Alan's Nature...

...Jean Gerson used genres to engender saintly subjectivities. His texts are different kinds of genre performances coming out of his various positions as university professor, master of theology, preacher, and speaker in the public square. The sermon, the central genre of religious literature...

...The chapter is a primer in “spiritual grammar” which provides a close reading of Gerson’s Moralized Grammar (Donatus moralizatus) . This theological and literary exposition initiates the reader into how this unusual text’s hybrid genre works. With appreciation of the author’s...

... identity, including some of the anti-Semitic texts to which Karl Kraus' “Heine and the Consequences” is frequently likened. This chapter analyzes the works of several German-Jewish authors including Adolf Jellinek, Moritz Goldstein, and Gerson Cohen. “German Jewish Parnassus The” Goldstein Goldstein...

...The sermons of Jean Gerson are collected together with others of his sermons, both in French and in Latin. In the opening of this sermon delivered on the third Sunday of Advent, Gerson discusses the Gospel for that Sunday, on the mission of Saint John the Baptist as messenger announcing the coming...

...This chapter focuses on the cathedral chapters' financial and moral support for the Feast of Fools. In 1400 Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris, launched his first attack on the Feast of Fools. This was followed by the ecumenical Council of Basel in 1435, by the Pragmatic Sanction...

...This chapter examines concerted efforts to suppress the Feast of Fools in the French towns of Senlis, St.-Omer, and Noyon. Although Auxerre was the only cathedral chapter named by Jean Gerson, his campaign almost certainly prompted others to take action against the Feast of Fools. In Senlis, St...

...This chapter examines the letter issued by the faculty of theology at the University of Paris in March 1445 denouncing the Feast of Fools. Those who issued the letter were heirs to an extended campaign against the Feast of Fools, begun in 1400 by Jean Gerson and subsequently backed by the Council...

...During the Hundred Years War, both France and England relied on propaganda to ensure public support for the conflict. Some of the greatest French writers of the late medieval period who contributed to this programme were Alain Chartier, Jean Gerson, and Christine de Pizan. This chapter argues...

...Around 1402, theologian Jean Gerson completed a treatise on the art of dying that became the basis for the ars moriendi, a popular genre throughout the later medieval and early modern eras. In his treatise, Gerson claimed that attending to the sick and dying was the greatest act of mercy...