Transforming Topoi: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition
In: Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung. v.23
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Introduction: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition -- The Exigencies of the Self-Evident, and Traditions as an Arsenal of Symbolic Politics -- Peter-André Alt: Traditions and the Dynamics of Change: Preliminary Thoughts on a Key Issue in Early Modern Studies -- Phillip H. Stump: Ideas of Reform and Tradition at the Late Medieval Reform Councils -- I. Gerhart Ladner and the Analysis of Reform -- II. Conciliar Reform -- III. Secular Parallels -- IV. Reform and Tradition in Harmony -- V. The Central Topos: Reform in Head and Members -- VI. Reform in Dissonance and Dialogue with Tradition -- Conclusion -- Margitta Rouse: (Un)Veiling the Veil: Trojan Temporalities, Chaucerian Ekphrasis and Literary Innovation in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece -- I. Renewing Lucrece as a ˋTrojan' Figure -- II. Rhetoric Versus Realism, or, the Heartless Early Critic -- III. ˋJust slightly askew': Trojan Ekphrasis, Classical, Medieval and Early Modern -- Maria Muccillo: Philosophy and Orthodoxy: Valuation and Devaluation of the Platonic Tradition in the Late Renaissance -- Anna Laura Puliafito: The Platonic Tradition and its Fates: Francesco Patrizi and Giordano Bruno -- Katharina Krause: Indomptable Valeur: Le Grand Condé and the End of the Hero in Art -- Gideon Stiening: Natural Sociability? The Aristotelian Tradition as a Challenge to Modern Natural Law as Reflected in European Enlightenment Literature: Jonathan Swift - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Johann Karl Wezel -- Introduction -- I. Aristotelianism versus Contractualism -- II. Gulliver's Travels (1726): Inventing Political Tradition -- III. La Nouvelle Héloxse (1761): Demolishing Tradition -- IV. Belphegor (1776): Trumping Tradition -- Conclusion: Political Traditions as Impositions