The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2017

The End of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity

Edited by: Arndt Brendecke and Peter Vogt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455045

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About this book

The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular traditions and confessional differences, analyses how the iconography and semantics of Fortuna motifs transformed, and traces the rise of complementary concepts such as those of probability, risk, fate and contingency. Thus, a multidisciplinary team of contributors sheds light on the surprising ways in which the end of Fortuna intersected with the rise of modernity.

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Arndt Brendecke und Peter Vogt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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The Late Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity Arndt Brendecke and Peter Vogt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Relationship between Regularity and Irregularity in Middle High German Poems on Fortuna Susanne Reichlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Fortuna’s Sea Change Renaissance Poetics of Contingency Burkhardt Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Justus Lipsius (1547–1606): Fortune and War Nicolette Mout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Fortuna Revalued On the Goddess’s Sexualisation in the Renaissance Jürgen Müller and Bettina Gruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Fortuna in Seventeenth Century Spain Literature, Politics and the Visual Arts José M. González García Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
The Death of Fortuna and the Rise of Modernity Prolegomena to any Future Theory of Modernity Peter Vogt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Farewell to Fortuna – Turning towards Fatum The Transformation of Fate Conceptions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Franziska Rehlinghaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Fortuna in Early Modern Sweden The Heyday and Decline of a Commonplace Concept Kristiina Savin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
La Fortune victime des Lumières ? Remarques sur les transformations de Fortune aux XVII^e et XVIII^e siècles Florence Buttay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians (early modern period), literary, art, and cultural scholars, philosophers, theologians
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 218
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 55
Keywords: Fortuna; Early Modern History; Modernity

eBook

Published: September 25, 2017
ISBN: 9783110455045

Hardcover

Published: September 25, 2017
ISBN: 9783110450422

Paperback

Published: July 8, 2019
ISBN: 9783110660197