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Promethean Ambitions
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: William R. Newman
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the eve
Promethean Ambitions
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: William R. Newman
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the eve
Magic in the Cloister
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Sophie Page
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty
Franciscans and the Elixir of Life
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Zachary A. Matus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-19 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Franciscans and the Elixir of Life makes new connections between alchemy, ritual life, apocalypticism, and the particular commitment of the Franciscan Order to
The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Ittai Weinryb
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book presents the first full length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval recepti
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