The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity

The End of Fortuna and the Rise of ModernityThe late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs

Die Aufsätze werden durch weitere Klärung verschaffende und im Band dokumentierte Diskussionen zwischen den Autoren vielfach aufeinander bezogen

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Das Werk bietet eine neue Rekonstruktion der Biographie und der Zeit des Menzius

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collective reading practices

parallel gegliedert und in der Problemsicht vergleichbar konzipiert

and the novelist have seemed to occupy distinct realms of cultural authority and to speak to different audiences (or

The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel

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Zum anderen wurden sie zu einem politisch-kulturellen Ordnungsinstrument