Cultural encounters : cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / edited by Désirée Cappa, James E. Christie, Lorenza Gay, Hanna Gentili, Finn Schulze-Feldmann (The Warburg Institute).

Introduction / James E. Christie, Lorenza Gay, Finn Schulze-Feldmann -- I. Encounters with the past -- Juno in the 'Epistre othea' by Christine de Pizan : an investigation of the pictorial antecedents and of the literary sources / Lorenza Gay -- From pagan god to magical being : the changing face of the Faerie King and its cultural implications / Angana Moitra -- Dante and the Romans d'Antiquité : a possible port of call for Dante? / Sophie Fuller -- II. Encounters with religion -- "Latin vice" and "hellenic charm" : Maximus the Greek and renaissance debates on astrology in sixteenth-century Muscovy / Ovanes Akopyan -- Notes on the transmission and the reception of the 'Sefer hekhalot' in the renaissance / Margherita Mantovani -- 'Sacrum bellum', 'Expeditio ad Sanctam Terram' or 'Päpstlich Verfolgung? The crusades in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography / Finn Schulze-Feldmann -- Confucius at "De Batavische Mercurius" : Governor General of the Dutch East Indies Pieter van Hoorn and the first vernacular translation of the Chinese Confucius / Trude Dijkstra -- III. Encounters with humanity -- Stepping sideways on the 'Scala naturae' : confronting the extraterrestrial in early modern literature / James E. Christie -- The mechanisation of symbols : the medieval wolf and the new science of nature / Ivan Dimitrijevic -- "Necessitas facit licitum, quod in lege illicitum est" : Alberico Gentili, the Puritans, and the controversy over drama / Cristiano Ragni.

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