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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea

10 best books like The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (Arthur O. Lovejoy): The Elizabethan World Picture, Inventing the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend, The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages, The Evolution of Medieval Thought, Arts and Ideas, The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

The Elizabethan World Picture
AuthorEustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
ISBN0394701623
This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered...
Inventing the Middle Ages
AuthorNorman F. Cantor
ISBN0688123023
The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century

In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth...
The Golden Legend
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
ISBN0140446486
One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c....
The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century
AuthorÉmile Mâle
ISBN0064300323
Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in...
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN0801831393
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
AuthorHelen Waddell
ISBN0486414361
This is that strangeness, without which beauty is not made perfect.

This is the wonky cousin of The White Goddess from Robert Graves. Rampant rolls of verse citation seep and suggest all the anxious influence of the ancients, particularly the Irish, who survived the initial pillage from the...
The Evolution of Medieval Thought
AuthorDavid Knowles
ISBN0582494265
A famous text with an introduction and commentary by Brooke and Luscombe. It reveals the connection between the thought of the Medieval Schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers. The new edition has been fully revised, updated and corrected.

Preface to First Edition
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Arts and Ideas
AuthorWilliam Fleming
ISBN0155011049
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The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393313662
Gay provides an interesting dialectical model: the philosophes opposed ancient paganism to medieval Christianity in order to create an autonomous "modern paganism" (vol. I). And his writing is beautiful.

Ultimately, though, his picture of the Enlightenment is thoroughly teleological...
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
AuthorEdwin Arthur Burtt
ISBN0486425517
After spending a summer at the cottage on Lake Michigan with my little brother, Fin, my co-parent, Martin, and I drove his Galaxy 500 up to the area of Hayward, Wisconsin to spend a week visiting Bill and his girlfriend, Terry, who had spent their summer at the cottage of his parents and had invited us, months...
The Plantagenet Chronicles
AuthorElizabeth Hallam
ISBN1555840183
From the Introduction: The foundations of Plantagenet success were laid by a line of obscure castellans in the Loire Valley who, in the tenth century, rose to become counts of Anjou.

Opening: Part1: ORIGINS OF THE ANGEVIN DYNASTY: The fortunes of the house of Anjou were founded on the prowess...
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
AuthorJonathan I. Israel
ISBN0199254567
In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers, including Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. The Radical Enlightenment...
The Greeks and the Irrational
AuthorE.R. Dodds
ISBN0520003276
In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology & psychology, he asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes...
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
AuthorCarl Lotus Becker
ISBN0300101503
Based on the Storrs lectures delivered at Yale University
A distinguished American historian challenges the belief that 18th century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl L. Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very...
German Philosophy 1760-1860 : The Legacy of Idealism
AuthorTerry P. Pinkard
ISBN0521663814
In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy dominated European philosophy, changing the way Europeans and people all over the world conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion, human history, politics, and the structure of the human mind. In this rich and wide-ranging...
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
AuthorChristopher Hill
ISBN0140137327
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic--the ideology of the propertied class--there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success "might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political...
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
AuthorErnst H. Kantorowicz
ISBN0691017042
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
AuthorErnst Cassirer
ISBN0691019630
In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis & a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows...
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic
AuthorIngrid D. Rowland
ISBN0809095246
Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours.

By the time...
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
AuthorAlexandre Koyré
ISBN0801803470
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of "fixed stars" gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time...
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
AuthorAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN0521639905
The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements...
The Crisis of the European Mind
AuthorPaul Hazard
ISBN1590176197
Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and The Crisis of the European Mind is by common consent his masterwork, an ambitious study in intellectual history whose breadth of learning and authority is widely acknowledged to this day.

The period from 1680 to 1715...
Plotinus, or the Simplicity of Vision
AuthorPierre Hadot
ISBN0226311945
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation—complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography—at last makes this...
تشكيل العقل الحديث
AuthorCrane Brinton
هذه هي قصة تكوين العقل الأوروبي الحديث الذي انفعلنا به وتفاعلنا معه، نحن وبلدان العالم الثالث، وتباينت سبل وأشكال الانفعال والتفاعل بين صد وقبول وملاءمة،...
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