The Renaissance

1. Justin K. Stearns

Infectious Ideas

ENG Justin Stearns is Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests focus on the intersection of law, the natural sciences, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East and he has published two books and numerous articles on these subjects. RUS Джастин Стернз получил степень бакалавра по английскому языку и истории в Дартмутском колледже и степень доктора философии по ближневосточным исследованиям в Принстонском университете. Он является профессором кафедры арабистики в Нью-йоркском университете Абу-Даби. Его исследовательские интересы сосредоточены на пересечениях права, науки и теологии на мусульманском Ближнем Востоке в Средние века

1. Kristoffer , Neville

The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe

Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In this volume, Kristoffer Neville shows how the cultural ambitions of Denmark and Sweden were inextricably bound to those of other Central European kingdoms. Tracing the visual culture of the Danish and Swedish courts from the Reformation to their eventual decline in the eighteenth century, Neville explains how and why they developed into important artistic centers. He examines major projects by figures largely unknown outside of Northern Europe alongside other, more canonical artists ¿ including Cornelis Floris, Adriaen de Vries, and Johann Bernhard Fischervon Erlach ¿ to propose a more coherent view of this part of Europe, one that rightly includes Scandinavia as a vital component. The seventeenth century has long seemed a bleak moment in Central European culture. Neville's authoritative and unprecedented study does much to change this perception, showing that the arts did not die in the Reformation and Thirty Years' War but rather flourished in the Baltic region.

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