Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism

 
Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism
John M. McManamon, "Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism"
English | ISBN: 080781783X | 2011 | 360 pages | EPUB | 383 KB
By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture. By examining hundreds of funeral speeches, he provides a valuable overview of major civic issues and humanistic themes, adding significant new material to the history of rhetoric. When Italian humanists spoke at funerals, they took this unique opportunity to press for their reformist goals.


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Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War

 
Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War
Craig Taylor, "Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War"
English | 2016 | pages: 366 | ISBN: 1316631125, 1107042216 | PDF | 2,4 mb
Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and soldiers. They questioned when knights and men-at-arms could legitimately resort to violence, the true nature of courage, the importance of mercy, and the role of books and scholarly learning in the very practical world of military men. Contributors to these discussions included some of the most famous French medieval writers, led by Jean Froissart, Geoffroi de Charny, Philippe de Mézières, Honorat Bovet, Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier and Antoine de La Sale. This interdisciplinary study sets their discussions in context, challenging modern, romantic assumptions about chivalry and investigating the historical reality of debates about knighthood and warfare in late medieval France.


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Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms

 
Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms
Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms: An Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra by David A. Cox , John Little , Donal O'Shea
English | PDF(True) | 2015 | 653 Pages | ISBN : 3319167200 | 9.6 MB
This text covers topics in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra with a strong perspective toward practical and computational aspects. The first four chapters form the core of the book. A comprehensive chart in the Preface illustrates a variety of ways to proceed with the material once these chapters are covered. In addition to the fundamentals of algebraic geometry-the elimination theorem, the extension theorem, the closure theorem and the Nullstellensatz-this new edition incorporates several substantial changes, all of which are listed in the Preface. The largest revision incorporates a new Chapter (ten), which presents some of the essentials of progress made over the last decades in computing Gröbner bases. The book also includes current computer algebra material in Appendix C and updated independent projects (Appendix D).


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