The Jesuit Creation
Peter Davidson
The meanings of the noun ‘creation’, and verb ‘to create’, range from traditional theological idea God creating ex nihilo to a more recent sense process artistic conception. This collection thirteen essays, written by scholars music, literature, visual arts, theology, explores complicated relationship between medieval rituals development an human creation, which came fore in sixteenth century. volume concentrates on period Carolingians Counter-Reformation but also includes some twentieth-century musicians. Each essay is dedicated particular topic concerned with ritual or beginnings, inventions, harmony disharmony, as well representations celebrations creation. Central themes include interplay ideas creator, acting recreating liturgy, artist—the deus artifex Pythagorean cosmology, was occasionally referred recently early nineteenth century—and, finally, homo concept man reflected (and eventually replaced) his creativity. book therefore features new, significant, individual contributions scholarly disciplines, but, taken whole, it constitutes complex interdisciplinary study, large-scale historical constructions.
Ritus et artes