Disharmony of the spheres : the Europe of Holbein's ambassadors / Jennifer Nelson.

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

©2019

xiii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm

""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"-- Provided by publisher.

English

November 18, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.