Very enjoyable. Are you familiar with Jacob Burckhardt's book, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy? Might help illuminate the condottieri and all that.
This is great! Looking forward to your thoughts on the influence of perennialism. Frazer, I find, is eminently skimmable, 12 volumes of examples—the table of contents tells the whole story. And yet the argument is rather elusive—a scientific flaw but a key to the work’s cultural impact, allowing it to be read against the grain of the author’s rationalist aims
Very enjoyable. Are you familiar with Jacob Burckhardt's book, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy? Might help illuminate the condottieri and all that.
I am not! I will have to check it out!
This is great! Looking forward to your thoughts on the influence of perennialism. Frazer, I find, is eminently skimmable, 12 volumes of examples—the table of contents tells the whole story. And yet the argument is rather elusive—a scientific flaw but a key to the work’s cultural impact, allowing it to be read against the grain of the author’s rationalist aims
Thank you! I’ll be sure to keep track of that vein!