Ramon Llull: a contemporary life /
"Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture during his early years in Majorca, soon after the Christian reconquest, furnished him with a vision of the "Other" quite unique among medieval European intellectuals. It was not, however...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Latin |
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Barcelona : New York :
Barcino ; Tamesis,
2010
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| Series: | Colección Támesis Textos ;
53. |
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| Summary: | "Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture during his early years in Majorca, soon after the Christian reconquest, furnished him with a vision of the "Other" quite unique among medieval European intellectuals. It was not, however, until his thirties that he abandoned the courtly life, immersed himself in theological and philosophical studies and began his sustained campaign of conversion. He travelled on many occasions throughout Europe in search of royal and papal support and undertook several missions to north Africa, in the course of one of which he was stoned and imprisoned. Despite his many travels he found time to compose more then 260 works, in Catalan and Latin, many of which related to his famous 'Art', a method for religious discussion with scientific and logical applications that subsequently influenced Giordano Bruno and Leibniz. When he was almost eighty years old, Llull dictated the story of his life to a group of Carthusians in Paris, leaving us this fascinating autobiography." "This edition includes both an English translation and the original Latin version."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [87]-88) |
| Physical Description: | 88 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1855661993 9781855661998 |