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  1. Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance
    Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these... more

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    The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these problems are treated in late medieval scholasticism in general and nominalist theology in particular. Looking at a subject that is relatively unexplored by literary critics, Langer introduces the reader to some basic features of nominalist theology and uses these to focus on what we find to be ""modern"" in French and Italian literature of the fifteen

     

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  2. Divine and Poetic Freedom in the Renaissance
    Nominalist Theology and Literature in France and Italy
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400861392; 140086139X
    Series: Princeton legacy library
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Free will and determinism in literature; French literature; Intellectual life; Italian literature; Nominalism in literature; Renaissance; Theology in literature; French literature; Italian literature; Italian literature; French literature; Free will and determinism in literature; Nominalism in literature; Theology in literature; Renaissance; Renaissance; Italienisch; Französisch; Theologie; Nominalismus; Literatur
    Scope: 226 pages
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    Acknowledgments ; Introduction; ONE ; The Free Reader: Hypothetical Necessity in Fiction; TWO ; Free Reward: Merit in Courtly Literature; THREE ; The Free Creator: Causality and Beginnings; FOUR ; Free Choice in Fiction: Will and Its Objects in Rabelais; FIVE; The Free Poet: Sovereignty and the Satirist; Epilogue: Will and Perspective; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

    The closely related problems of creativity and freedom have long been seen as emblematic of the Renaissance. Ullrich Langer, however, argues that French and Italian Renaissance literature can be profitably reconceived in terms of the way these problems are treated in late medieval scholasticism in general and nominalist theology in particular. Looking at a subject that is relatively unexplored by literary critics, Langer introduces the reader to some basic features of nominalist theology and uses these to focus on what we find to be ""modern"" in French and Italian literature of the fifteen