Disharmony of the spheres: the Europe of Holbein's ambassadors

Abstract

""Explores how certain educated northern Europeans in the first half of the sixteenth century increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and inclusive of mutual contradiction. Examines how early modern writers grappled with the problem of cultural, religious, and cosmological difference in relation to notions of universals and the divine"--

Contents

Anamorphosis as symbolic form -- Melanchthon's imperfect mathematics -- Hartmann's locative science -- Erasmus enumerates Europe -- The self-dissimilar salvation of Holbein's ambassadors.