I discovered an interesting quote from Robert Fludd that the members of this group may appreciate. In contradistinction to Ficino’s discussion of “spiritus” as mediating between body and soul, Fludd says that the soul of man is the same “spirit” in the blood and in the intellect. From his Mosaicall philosophy… (1659), pp. 231-232: By […]
Dear all, In relation to discussions at the team meeting of 1) conversion and syncretism, 2) desire to engage more with forms of (de-)conversion that are coercive or violent, and 3) desire for more engagement with areas outside of Europe and intra-Christian conversion, I started thinking about the potential of […]
Jason R. Young, Francisco Laucirica; Stéfan Sinclair, and José R. Jouve-Martin. – Institute for the Public Life of Arts & Ideas, McGill University Founded in 1535, Lima served as the colonial capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru. For almost three centuries, the city was also one of the Spanish Empire’s […]
Raphael’s St Cecilia Mossakowski
Enchiridion Fifth Rule
Silenus and Platonic conversion
Please see the abstract below for a recent paper by Charles T. Wolfe which deals with embodied empiricism other other concepts in relation to the Soul. (Provided courtesy of Torrance Kirby) The Material Soul: Strategies for Naturalizing the Soul in an Early Modern Epicurean Context Charles T. Wolfe Abstract: […]
There are a number of projects using textual analysis and large-scale datasets to visualize the socio-spatial development and distribution of intellectual and personal networks, and map social and institutional change linked to those networks. This post provides links to some examples. Larger scale projects, such as the Darwin correspondence project […]
Hi everyone, This is a brief and tentative annotated bibliography of sources for early modern texts in Spanish in OCR formats. I’m working towards a broad compilation of texts, with a focus on those which might be relevant to “cities as theaters of conversion.” There are few specialized host sites, […]
Raphael, The Ecstasy of St Cecilia with Sts Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene. Pinacoteca Nazionale. 1515. Here is an image of conversion from sorrow to joy. But the image is also an interesting demonstration of the wider connotations of conversion in the ‘Discarded Image’ (C.S. Lewis) of […]
