Jan R Veenstra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan R Veenstra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Veenstra |
| SIGNATURE | VEENSTRA J R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason
Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of …
Airy Nothings - Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason
"Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of…
Christian humanism
Duivelse Bezetenheid, beschreven door dokter Johannes Wier, 1515-1588 (review)
In 1960, Jan Jacob Cobben (1926-98) published a well-received dissertation on Johannes Wier's ideas on witchcraft, demonic possession, and magic as expounded in his De praestigiis daemonum (Johannes Wier: Zijn opvattingen over bezetenheid, hekserij en magie, 1960, translated by S. Prins, slightly abridged, as Jan Wier, Devils, Witches and Magic, 1976). Cobben's professional career as a radiologist kept him from further medical-historical research…
Normative Zentrierung
The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt
Etude du Nouvel Historicisme inaugure par S. Greenblatt sous le nom de poetique de la culture qui cherche a etablir les relations entre les textes et leur contexte socio-historique. L'A. compare la theorie de la circulation d'une energie sociale, developpee par Greenblatt dans le sens d'une dialectique de la totalisation et de la differenciation, a l'hermeneutique traditionnelle
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The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt
Etude du Nouvel Historicisme inaugure par S. Greenblatt sous le nom de poetique de la culture qui cherche a etablir les relations entre les textes et leur contexte socio-historique. L'A. compare la theorie de la circulation d'une energie sociale, developpee par Greenblatt dans le sens d'une dialectique de la totalisation et de la differenciation, a l'hermeneutique traditionnelle
Normative Zentrierung
Duivelse Bezetenheid, beschreven door dokter Johannes Wier, 1515-1588 (review)
In 1960, Jan Jacob Cobben (1926-98) published a well-received dissertation on Johannes Wier's ideas on witchcraft, demonic possession, and magic as expounded in his De praestigiis daemonum (Johannes Wier: Zijn opvattingen over bezetenheid, hekserij en magie, 1960, translated by S. Prins, slightly abridged, as Jan Wier, Devils, Witches and Magic, 1976). Cobben's professional career as a radiologist kept him from further medical-historical research…
Christian humanism
Airy Nothings - Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason
"Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of…
Airy Nothings: Imagining the Otherworld of Faerie from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason
Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of …
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