Marking the thirtieth anniversary of "Theophilus North, " this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime,[...]
In the age of the Theodosian dynasty and the establishment of Christianity as the only legitimate religion of the Roman Empire, few figures are more pivotal in the power politics of the Christian church than archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412). This work examines the involvement of archbis[...]
In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works.Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is the only[...]
Based on his theory of natural law, Pufendorf denounces the Revocation [of the Edict of Nantes in 1685] as an illegitimate and tyrannical act and advocates toleration. The Divine Feudal Law' can be seen as a complement to the treatise on toleration . Pufendorf attempts to demonstrate in The Divine F[...]
The first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age.
"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of Our Town to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue[...]
In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame s first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country s most prestigious honors. The procedure was cancelled, and Frame would go on to[...]
The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a promotion, is demoted, becomes furious and makes a contract with the Devil. Later repentant, he seeks out a church and a statue of the Virgin; she app[...]
Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thriving cosmopolitan centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous cities of the world. He was fluent in Greek, Syriac and Arabic,[...]
Der Benediktiner-Priestermonch Theophilus Presbyter schrieb sein Grundlagenwerk uber das mittelalterliche Kunsthandwerk "De diversis artibus" zu Anfang des 12. Jahrhunderts, wahrscheinlich in einem Kloster im Bistum Paderborn oder Hildesheim. All seine Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen auf den Gebieten d[...]