Fate and fortune in European thought, ca. 1400-1650
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Fate and fortune in European thought, ca. 1400-1650
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 327）
Brill, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-284) and index
Contents of Works
- The concept of fate in philosophy and theology
- Political and social context
- Artistic considerations
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Description
This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.
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Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate
Ovanes Akopyan
Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology
1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune
John Sellars
2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate
Paul Richard Blum
3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Elisabeth Blum
4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity
Jo Coture
Part 2: Political and Social Context
5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli's Anatomy of the Body Politic
Guido Giglioni
6 "Fortune is a Mistresse": Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry
Orlando Reade
7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Sophie Raux
Part 3: Artistic Considerations
8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate
Damiano Acciarino
9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour
Dalia Judovitz
10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia
Ovanes Akopyan
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