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Nicholas of Cusa's "On Learned Ignorance

Nicholas of Cusa's "On Learned Ignorance

Karsten Harries

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
2024
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This is the first commentary to have been written on Nicholas of Cusa's most famous work, On Learned Ignorance. This fact testifies to the difficulty of what has long been recognized to be the most significant philosophical text produced by the Renaissance. While there are many passages in the work that can be cited in support of Cassirer's celebration of Cusanus as the first modern philosopher, that judgment is challenged by the way his work is rooted in a faith and a tradition likely to strike us as thoroughly medieval. This commentary shows how closely the two are linked. Despite the many ways in which what the cardinal has to say belongs to a past that the progress of reason would seem to have left irrecoverably behind, it yet provides us with a continuing challenge. Key to On Learned Ignorance is the incommensurability of the infinite and the finite, of God and creation. Cusanus lets us recognize the essential transcendence of reality, so different from the ontology implied by Descartes' insistence on clear and distinct understanding, which has presided over the progress of science and has helped shape our world. What makes Cusanus' thought important is not the way it anticipates modernity, but the way it challenge often taken for granted presuppositions of our worldview, most importantly a distinctly modern self-assertion or self-elevation that has made our human reason the measure of reality. If it is impossible to deny the countless ways in which our science and technology have given us ever deeper insights into the mysteries of nature and improved our lives, it is equally impossible to deny that this very progress today endangers this fragile earth and the quality of our lives. Cusanus can help us preserve our humanity.
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Nicholas Black Elk

Nicholas Black Elk

Jon M. Sweeney

Liturgical Press
2020
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Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk (1863—1950) is popularly celebrated for his fascinating spiritual life. How could one man, one deeply spiritual man, serve as both a traditional Oglala Lakota medicine man and a Roman Catholic catechist and mystic? How did these two spiritual and cultural identities enrich his prayer life? How did his commitment to God, understood through his Lakota and Catholic communities, shape his understanding of how to be in the world? To fully understand the depth of Black Elk’s life-long spiritual quest requires a deep appreciation of his life story. He witnessed devastation on the battlefields of Little Bighorn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee, but also extravagance while performing for Queen Victoria as a member of “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show. Widowed by his first wife, he remarried and raised eight children. Black Elk’s spiritual visions granted him wisdom and healing insight beginning in his childhood, but he grew progressively physically blind in his adult years. These stories, and countless more, offer insight into this extraordinary man whose cause for canonization is now underway at the Vatican.
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Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

Bernard Eisenschitz

University of Minnesota Press
2011
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Perhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They Live by Night. Born in Galesville, Wisconsin, in 1911, Ray was an iconoclastic figure in film-an alcoholic, depressive, and compulsive gambler-who found himself increasingly blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1960s only to be heralded as the spiritual father to American cinema’s New Wave and one of America’s greatest rebel auteurs. From Martin Scorsese to Jean-Luc Godard and Jim Jarmusch, Ray’s influence can be seen throughout the work of some of the twentieth century’s greatest directors. In this authoritative biography, Bernard Eisenschitz leaves no stone unturned.
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Nicholas Roerich

Nicholas Roerich

John McCannon

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
2022
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Russian painter, explorer, and mystic Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) ranks as one of the twentieth century’s great enigmas. Despite mystery and scandal, he left a deep, if understudied, cultural imprint on Russia, Europe, India, and America. As a painter and set designer Roerich was a key figure in Russian art. He became a major player in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and with Igor Stravinsky he cocreated The Rite of Spring, a landmark work in the emergence of artistic modernity. His art, his adventures, and his peace activism earned the friendship and admiration of such diverse luminaries as Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, Jawaharlal Nehru, Raisa Gorbacheva, and H. P. Lovecraft. But the artist also had a darker side. Stravinsky once said of Roerich that “he ought to have been a mystic or a spy.” He was certainly the former and close enough to the latter to blur any distinction. His travels to Asia, supposedly motivated by artistic interests and archaeological research, were in fact covert attempts to create a pan-Buddhist state encompassing Siberia, Mongolia, and Tibet. His activities in America touched Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s cabinet with scandal and, behind the scenes, affected the course of three US presidential elections. In his lifetime, Roerich baffled foreign affairs ministries and intelligence services in half a dozen countries. He persuaded thousands that he was a humanitarian and divinely inspired thinker - but convinced just as many that he was a fraud or a madman. His story reads like an epic work of fiction and is all the more remarkable for being true. John McCannon’s engaging and scrupulously researched narrative moves beyond traditional perceptions of Roerich as a saint or a villain to show that he was, in many ways, both in equal measure.
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Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation

Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation

Muriel Emanuel; Vera Gissing; Esther Rantzen

Vallentine Mitchell Co Ltd
2001
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When Nicholas Winton met a friend in Prague in December 1938, he was shocked by the plight of thousands of refugees and Czech citizens desperate to flee from the advancing German army. A British organization had been set up to help the adults, but who would save the children? Winton felt he could not walk away. He set up a makeshift office and in just three weeks interviewed thousands of distraught parents who had the courage to part with their children and send them alone to England. Armed with their details and photos, he returned to London to convince the Home Office of the urgency of the situation. He knew he was working against time. His supreme efforts resulted in eight train-loads bringing 669, mainly Jewish, children to London. Winton has been a remarkable humanitarian all his life. After the war, wishing to be involved with the rehabilitation of Europe's refugees, he worked for international organizations. He retired early, settled in Maidenhead and devoted himself to charitable works for which he was honoured with the MBE in 1983. This is his story.
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Nicholas Lanier

Nicholas Lanier

Michael I. Wilson

Scolar Press
1994
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Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles I, he was also a practising painter, a friend of Rubens, Van Dyck and many other artists of his time, and one of the very first great art collectors and connoisseurs. He is especially remembered for the part he played in acquiring, on behalf of Charles I, the famous collection of paintings belonging to the Gonzaga family of Mantua. Many of these paintings still form an important part of the Royal Collection today. In this book the different strands of Lanier's colourful life are for the first time drawn together and presented in a single compelling narrative.
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Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

University of Exeter Press
2005
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Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is an important work of late medieval English vernacular theology, and is made available here in a modern paperback "Reading Text" edition, complete with a short Introduction, explanatory notes and glossary, followed by a longer hardback: the "Full Critical Edition".The critical edition is not merely a revision of Michael Sargent's 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new and completely critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point. Although based on the same manuscript, and containing much of the same introductory material, this edition includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints. This collation demonstrates that the text exists in two separate authorial versions, of which the first, which incorporated a separate, independent translation of the Passion section, may not in the first instance have included the "Treatise on the Sacrament". The second version, on which the edition is based, is an authorial revision, undertaken, perhaps, after Love had met with Archbishop Arundel for approval of his text.The Introduction discusses the evidence for the process of composition of the text, and places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England and the consequences of Arundel's anti-Lollard Lambeth Constitutions.
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Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

University of Exeter Press
2005
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Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is a particularly important work of late medieval English vernacular theology: it is seen as a landmark in the history of the official campaign to control lay access to vernacular paramystical texts. It is made available here for the first time in a critical modern paperback edition, complete with a short introduction, explanatory notes and a glossary. The volume is not merely a revision of Michael Sargent’s 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new full critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point. Although based on the same manuscript, this new edition includes the results of a complete collation of the 71 known surviving manuscripts and early prints.Nicholas Love’s Mirror was a Middle English translation of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes Vitae Christi. The Latin text, probably written at the end of the thirteenth century or the beginning of the fourteenth, was a popular book of devotions on the events of the life and passion of Christ characteristic of late-medieval Franciscan spirituality. The Introduction places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England.
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Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance

Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance

F. Edward Cranz; Thomas M. Izbicki

Variorum
2000
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This volume brings together Professor Cranz’s published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death. Their subjects are the speculative thought of Cusanus and his relationship with the broader themes of the Renaissance. Particular attention is given to patterns of development in Cusanus’ thought as he wrestled with problems of divine transcendence and the limits of human capacities. Overall, these studies also reveal Professor Cranz’s interest in the larger changes in Western modes of thought during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which define our ways of thinking as different from those of Antiquity.
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Nicholas I

Nicholas I

W. Bruce Lincoln

Northern Illinois University Press
1989
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The Indiana U. Press edition (1978) is cited in BCL3 . A scholarly biography that provides a view of Russian autocracy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Nicholas Nutcracker and Brittany Ballerina

Nicholas Nutcracker and Brittany Ballerina

Maureen McCabe

Maureen McCabe
2025
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Please allow me to introduce the second edition of my Christmas picture book for girls Nicholas Nutcracker & Brittany Ballerina. It's about two lonely Christmas tree ornaments, Nicholas Nutcracker, a retired toy-soldier from a small village in Germany, and Brittany Ballerina, a world-renowned ornament ballet dancer. Nicholas & Brittany are both ready to find their true love before they go back into their boxes in the attic for another year. There's grandparents. There's an oh-so-cute dog, Bellamy, the basset hound. There's friends like Jolly Old St Nick, Kelly Tea Kettle, Rocky Rocking Horse, and Brittany's best friend, Irene Ice Skate. After Grandmother carefully hung all the ornaments on the tree, she announces "The tree and ornaments look perfect It's time to get the party started with "The Annual Meet and Mingle of the Ornaments." After Nicholas spots Brittany on the tree, he knows it's love at first sight. But, now he needs Grandmother to move him closer to Brittany. He gestures every way he can imagine: silent yelling, fanciful arm-waving, make-believe foot stomping. Finally though, Bellamy comes to the rescue when he accidentally bumps the tree. And the rest is history. D. Donovan with Midwest Book Review says "kids with good reading skills or read-aloud parent will find A Christmas Love Story a warm tale of ballet aspirations, romance, and overcoming obstacles set against a holiday backdrop that is beautifully rendered, nicely illustrated with colorful drawings by Anastasiia K. and just the ticket for an original holiday read. A simplified title and second edition comes out November 10, 2025 just in time for Christmas. It's sweet. It's old-fashioned. Good for night-time read It's all about the search for true love. And, it is a perfect Christmas book for girls ages 4 to 8.
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Nicholas Herriman and the New Heroes League

Nicholas Herriman and the New Heroes League

Ken Sheldon

Harmon House
2021
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Nick Herriman lost an enchanted medallion that accidentally opened a gate between universes. Now he's getting threatening messages. Can he whip the his superhero team into shape before an old enemy takes revenge on them? Nicholas Herriman and the New Heroes League continues the adventures of Nick and his friends from The Above-Average Adventures of Nicholas Herriman and Nicholas Herriman and the Enchanter's Medallion. Chaos at the zoo A riot at the mall The New Heroes--who are still learning how to use their new powers and work as a team--have to deal with disasters while also working on a history project for school. Twists, turns, action, and laughs. Just another week for the New Heroes League The Above-Average Adventures of Nicholas Herriman was given a 5-star award from Readersfavorite.com, whose reviewer said, "When I was about a third of the way into this book, I found I could not put it down."Ken Sheldon, a lifelong fan of superhero comics and stories, says, "I wrote this series to appeal to kids who are as crazy about superheroes as I was." Fans of the middle-grade series have said, "LOVED it Brilliant in every way."Another reviewer said, "Hilarious dialogue, suspense and surprises that will keep the pages zooming by.""A real page turner that entertains from start to finish "
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