bibliography kenneth setton (2 resultados)

Softcover. Reprint. xx, 379 p.; 20 cm. (Harper torchbooks ; TB 48) [First printed in 1901 as: The Classical heritage of the middle ages] Contents: Foreword to the Torchbook edition -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- II. The passing of the antique man -- III. Phases of pagan decadence -- IV. The antique culture: i. the transmission of letters, ii. transmission of the Roman law -- V. Pagan elements Christianized in transmission: i. ethics, ii. Synesius of Cyrene, iii. the Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies of the counterfeit Dionysius the Areopagite, iv. mysteries, symbolism, allegory -- VI. Ideals of knowledge, beauty, love: i. philosophy and dogma, ii. beauty and love -- VII. Abandonment of pagan principles in a Christian system of life: i. origins of monasticism, ii. Western monasticism, iii. the monastic character -- VIII. Christian prose: i. Christianization of style, ii. the first four centuries of Christian prose, iii. mediaevalizing of Latin prose and forms of composition -- IX. Christian poetry: i. classic metre and Christian emotion, ii. Greek Christian poetry, iii. early Latin Christian poetry, iv. the transition to mediaeval Latin poetry -- X. Christian art: i. the transition from antique to mediaeval architecture, ii. antique Christian painting and sculpture, iii. Byzantine painting, iv. the antique of mediaeval art -- Bibliography by Kenneth M. Setton -- Index. Good sl. edgespotted in orig red on black wrapper.

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