Beyond the persecuting society [[electronic resource] ] : religious toleration before the Enlightenment / / edited by John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463709203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998
• ISBN: 1-283-89629-X; 0-8122-0586-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LaursenJohn Christian; NedermanCary J
• Disciplina: 291.1/772/09
• Soggetti: Religious tolerance - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The medieval balance -- pt. 2. The long sixteenth century -- pt. 3. The seventeenth century.
• Sommario/riassunto: There is a myth—easily shattered—that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another—too readily accepted—that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization.If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond ; the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present.

Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930 : Contested Memory / / Myroslav Shkandrij

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817306603321
• Autore: Shkandrij Myroslav
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Brooklyn, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2018; ©2018
• ISBN: 9781618119766; 1-61811-976-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 pages)
• Disciplina: 700.947709041
• Soggetti: Art, Ukrainian - 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Ukraine - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The "Historic" Avant-Garde of 1910-30 -- Forging the European Connection -- Politics and Painting -- Artists in the Maelstrom: Five Case Studies -- The Avant-Garde in Today's Cultural Memory -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their connection to Ukraine has seldom been explored, English-language readers are often unaware that figures such as Archipenko, Burliuk, Malevich, and Exter were inspired both by their country of origin and their links to compatriots. This book traces the avant-garde development from its pre-war years in Paris to the end of the 1920's in Kyiv. It includes chapters on the political dilemmas faced by this generation, the ; contribution of Jewish artists, and the work of several emblematic figures: Mykhailo Boichuk, David Burliuk, Kazimir Malevich, Vadym Meller, Ivan Kavaleridze, and Dziga Vertov.