Sentences with phrase «early modern period»

For more than twenty - five years, Hollis Taggart Galleries has specialized in fine American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly that of early modern period and Post-War art.

For Larrimore the medieval and early modern periods mark the rise of the Book of Job as disputation, with Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and Calvin as his chosen representatives.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

Similarly, in the early modern period, most people, including most scientists, saw the cosmos as a very complex machine that was obviously made by a powerful mind of enormous intelligence.

Its heyday was the late medieval and early modern periods, suggesting a deep cultural continuity between them.

Drawing mainly from Protestant authors of the early modern period, John Witte, Jr. discusses «the interplay among law, theology, and marriage in the West.»

One of the most elaborate covenant political theologies of the early modern period, the Politica of Johannes Althusius, envisions a political order based on consent.

But viewed in terms of human relationships and the quality of life, there are many indications that peasants in the Middle Ages and the early modern period had more dignity and enjoyment than the industrial workers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Prior to their work, theologians made use of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and, in the early modern period, Descartes and Newton.

This individualism dominated thought about society throughout the early modern period and has shaped much of late modern thought as well.

Since Suarez was the major Scholastic of the early modern period, and since one of Leclerc's heroes, Leibniz, did repeatedly indicate the great influence of Suarez's metaphysics on his own thought, it is odd that Suarez is not so much as mentioned in Leclerc's writings.

During the Middle Ages and early modern period, theological assertions were taken seriously as embodying literal meanings.

Late modern theory is broadly anything after the early modern period.

The early modern period saw the rise of social contract theory (agreement replacing reason or faith), a focus on laws and institutions (rather than the unitary leader).

In a fairly concise survey, the authors chart the shifting interpretations of the concept of heredity from the early modern period through to the present.

A: In the early modern period, food was used as medicine; medical and food recipes intermixed freely.

It was written by While the witch trials only really began in the 15th century, with the start of the early modern period, many of their causes [citation needed] had been

Did the punishment fit the crime in the Early Modern Period?

This lesson supports the new GCSE crime and punishment through time in the Early Modern Period.

SPECULATE the punishments of crimes in the Early Modern Period DESCRIBE the crimes and punishments in the Early Modern Period APPLY skills to answering a GCSE Question Starter: SPECULATE the punishments for the following crimes Answers Introduce new punishments create a organiser to record the crimes and punishments Do you know the difference between pillory and stocks?

Queen Elizabeth was one of the most competent monarchs of the early modern period, and she led England through the transition from minor kingdom to world power.

the spread of pet - keeping among the urban middle classes in the early modern period is... a development of genuine social, psychological, and indeed commercial importance.

Treanor adds that there may have been fewer female artists working in abstraction because, in the early modern period, women were steered toward still - life painting or portraiture.

These remarkable and little - studied works were important sources for the transmission of decorative motifs for furniture, textiles, jewelry, architecture and landscape design, and armaments in the early modern period.

A new perspective to the Museum of Islamic Art's collection by showing the connection between three major dynasties who mark the start of the early modern period in Islamic art.

Guided by these questions, this exploratory seminar will survey and examine creative uses, definitions, and theories of the diagram from the early modern period to the present, with emphasis on cultural production in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Questioning the effects of a rapidly evolving culture on «our sense of self and identity as well as on art's form and larger social role» — as the exhibition claims to do — has been a concern of varying degree within the arts since the early modern period and will likely continue to have new permutations every generation.

In the arts, a similar revolution was taking place; the realism of the early Modern period had been supplanted in the late 1950s by Abstraction and Pop Art.

Dr. Bean also works on the early modern period and on vernacular arts, particularly textiles and ceramics.

Shanghai was formerly an international settlement during the early modern period, and an economic center in the early 21st century.

European artworks from the medieval to the early modern period comprise one of the Museum's most substantial holdings, with particular strengths in medieval sculpture, early Italian Renaissance panel painting, and 17th - century Dutch and Italian painting.

The early modern period of the Renaissance often featured depictions of deep recessive space, particularly spaces that reference earlier architectural tradition.

A historian of South Asian and Himalayan art, with secondary areas of interest relating to issues of gender and identity in South Asian contemporary art and film, her interests are in the early modern period focus on the ritual and ideological functions of Buddhist art in South Asia, including...

A historian of South Asian and Himalayan art, with secondary areas of interest relating to issues of gender and identity in South Asian contemporary art and film, her interests are in the early modern period focus on the ritual and ideological functions of Buddhist art in South Asia, including theories of ritual performance and politics of identity.

These artists were innovative in the early development of landscape painting and were revered throughout the early modern period.