3309633The Elizabethan World Picturehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-elizabethan-world-picture-9781446467640/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2780063/693c69f4-6bea-4b1f-b179-7c7319200973.jpg?v=638384442324800000284334MXNRandom HouseInStock/Ebooks/The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the world existed - and thence to the beasts and plants. In this short study Dr Tillyard not only elucidates such fairly familiar - though often mystifying - concepts as the four elements, the celestial harmony of nine enfolded Sphears, or macrocosm and microcosm; he also shows how this world picture was variously regarded as a chain of being, a network of correspondences, and a cosmic dance. Such concepts were commonplace to the Elizabethans. By expounding them the author has rendered plain, and not merely picturesque, the literature and thinking of an age....3245626The Elizabethan World Picture284334https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-elizabethan-world-picture-9781446467640/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2780063/693c69f4-6bea-4b1f-b179-7c7319200973.jpg?v=638384442324800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119781446467640_W3siaWQiOiJkNmRiY2UyNy1iN2E1LTQ4ZmItYThjNi0xNWJmNTRkZDY1YjAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMzOCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjUxLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI4NywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDEtMTdUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781446467640_The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the world existed - and thence to the beasts and plants. In this short study Dr Tillyard not only elucidates such fairly familiar - though often mystifying - concepts as the four elements, the celestial harmony of nine enfolded Sphears, or macrocosm and microcosm; he also shows how this world picture was variously regarded as a chain of being, a network of correspondences, and a cosmic dance. Such concepts were commonplace to the Elizabethans. By expounding them the author has rendered plain, and not merely picturesque, the literature and thinking of an age.(*_*)9781446467640_The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages the modified view of the universe which, Platonic and biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the world existed - and thence to the beasts and plants. In this short study Dr Tillyard not only elucidates such fairly familiar - though often mystifying - concepts as the four elements, the celestial harmony of nine enfolded Sphears, or macrocosm and microcosm; he also shows how this world picture was variously regarded as a chain of being, a network of correspondences, and a cosmic dance. Such concepts were commonplace to the Elizabethans. By expounding them the author has rendered plain, and not merely picturesque, the literature and thinking of an age....9781446467640_Random Houselibro_electonico_94bb3743-ccaf-43eb-96e6-51ddca84847b_9781446467640;9781446467640_9781446467640E MInglésMéxico2011-04-30T00:00:00+00:00Random House