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  Sebastian Brant - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
SEBASTIAN BRANT (1457-1521), German humanist and satirist, was born at Strassburg about the year 1457.
Although, like most of the German humanists, essentially conservative in his religious views, Brant's eyes were open to the abuses in the church, and the Narrenschiff was a most effective preparation for the Protestant Reformation.
Brant's other works, of which the chief was a version of Freidank's Bescheidenheit (1508), are of inferior interest and importance.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sebastian_Brant   (392 words)

  
 §2. Sebastian Brant’s "Narrenschiff". IV. Barclay and Skelton. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The ...
Not that Brant took much pains to work out the allegory adopted in the beginning; on the contrary, he was extremely careless in that respect, changing and even dropping it altogether in the course of the work.
But it was just this somewhat loose arrangement that pleased Brant’s readers; and, as his notion of folly was a very wide one, and comprised all sorts of personal and social vices and weaknesses, the book became an all-round satirical picture of the manners of the age.
Brant did not only blame people, but he wanted to induce them to mend their ways by demonstrating the absurdity or the evil consequences of their follies.
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 Brant, Sebastian Criticism and Essays
Brant was loyal to the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor Maximilian, and when Basel joined the Swiss Confederation in 1499, he returned to imperial Strasbourg.
Brant relied heavily on biblical sources as well as works by the classical writers Ovid, Juvenal, and Horace when he composed his poem, and he has in common with the earlier authors the desire to highlight humans' reasoning nature and to guide them along the path to salvation by pointing out their follies.
Brant shows that foolishness is akin to ungodliness and illustrates the effects of straying from God and of engaging in irrational behavior.
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 Sebastian Brant
Prior to this, from 1484, Brant had begun to lecture at the university, practising his profession at the same time.
The work to which Brant owes his fame is the "Narrenschiff" (Ship of Fools), a long didactic, allegorical poem, in which the follies and vices of the time are satirized.
Besides the "Narrenschiff" Brant wrote religious and political poems in Latin and Gerrnan.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/brant,sebastian.html   (720 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The German writer Sebastian Brant (1457-1521) was the author of the "Narrenschiff," or "Ship of Fools," one of the most famous secular works in European letters.
Sebastian Brant, born in Strassburg, lost his father as a child and was reared by his mother.
Brant was an admirer and confidant of Emperor Maximilian I. He was also a confirmed humanist, a staunch adherent of Catholicism, and an arch conservative, becoming ever more pessimistic about the future of the Holy Roman Empire, especially after 1517.
www.bookrags.com /biography/sebastian-brant   (378 words)

  
 Stultifera Navis (The Ship of Fools): The Medieval Satire of Sebastian Brant
Brant was a loyalist to the Holy Roman Empire, and when Basel joined the Swiss Confederation in 1499, Brant returned to imperial Strasbourg.
Brant believed that the Holy Roman Empire had come into German hands because Germany was divinely ordained to lead the temporal Christian world.
Brant's message was enhanced by a set of stunning woodcuts, most of them believed to have been carved by a young Albrecht Dürer during a short stay in Basel in 1494.
info.lib.uh.edu /sca/digital/ship/introduction.html   (577 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant biography
Brant achieved fame through his satirical poem, Das Narrenschiff ('The Ship of Fools'), published in 1494, one of the most remarkable and popular books of the time.
So all classes saw themselves in his picture and read with a twinge at their own and a smile at others' folly, "the first printed book that dealt with contemporary events and living persons, instead of old German battles and French knights" (Max Müller).
But Brant was no poet, nor did he have much milk of human kindness in his chastisement of poor mortals.
www.dromo.info /brantbio.htm   (367 words)

  
 Studio fuer alte deutsche Literatur: Renaissance - Autoren - Sebastian Brant
Brant, Sohn des Ratsherrn und Gastwirts Diebolt Brant d.J., studierte seit Herbst 1475 klassische Sprachen und Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität Basel und lehrte kanonisches und ziviles Recht, seit 1484 auch Poesie.
Brants schriftstellerisches Werk umfasst juristische, historisch-geographische, satirisch-didaktische Schriften, lateinische Dichtung, Editionen und Übersetzungen antiker Autoren; als Berater (Corrector) der Basler Drucker war er an zahlreichen in Basel gedruckten Büchern beteiligt.
Aesopus; Steinhöwel, Heinrich; Brant, Sebastian: Esopi appologi sive mythologi: cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant.
www.pohlw.de /literatur/sadl/renaiss/brant.htm   (437 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sebastian Brant (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sebastian Brant[sAbAs´tyAn brAnt] Pronunciation Key, 1457–1521, German humanist and moralist.
He taught law at the Univ. of Basel and in 1503 became town clerk of Strasbourg.
The story tells of 112 fools : each representing a fashionable foible : who sail out to sea and die because of their folly.
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 Amazon.com: "Sebastian Brant": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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Die eindrucksvollste Verselbstndigung einer solchen Kunstfigur gelang Sebastian Brant in der Gestaltung seiner Narren, von denen jeder einzelne eine besondere menschliche Torheit personifiziert, die unter heilsgeschichtlichem Aspekt die Entfernung...
Sebastian Brant, mit Drer befreundet, hat es gleich zu Beginn seines 1494 in Basel bei Johann Bergmann von Olpe gedruckten und reich...
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 Sebastian Brant − Wikipedia
Brant wird dadurch zum bekanntesten Vertreter der Narrenliteratur.
Brant lieferte 1494 die vermutlich erste Beschreibung des Schlaraffenlandes.
In der Rechtsgeschichte spielt Sebastian Brant eine bedeutende Rolle als Verfasser einiger kleinerer Traktate, insbesondere aber als Herausgeber zweier bedeutender Rechtsbücher: 1509 ließ er den Laienspiegel Ulrich Tenglers drucken, ab 1516 den Klagspiegel von Conrad Heyden.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sebastian_Brant   (416 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant Summary
The name Sebastian Brant is inextricably tied to Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools, 1494), by far his best-known work.
In the following essay, Halporn discusses Brant's work as an editor of texts used by law students, which, the critic asserts, he did in part because he believed in making the law accessible to more people so that citizens could serve their own interests more effectively.
He also assesses Brant's place in literary history as he presents the principal aspects of Brant's views and works.
www.bookrags.com /Sebastian_Brant   (280 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant: the key to understanding Luca Penni's 'Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins.' Art Bulletin, The - Find ...
Sebastian Brant: the key to understanding Luca Penni's 'Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins.' Art Bulletin, The - Find Articles
Sebastian Brant: the key to understanding Luca Penni's 'Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins.'
The chain and clog added around her waist mark the ape's unwillingness to submit to discipline and bring to mind "the sinner in the chains of vice or death" (ibid., 146).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_n2_v78/ai_18486162/pg_38   (570 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BRANT, Sebastian (1458?-1521), German poet and humanist, born in Strasbourg (now in France).
Brant achieved great fame through his satirical poem Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools, 1494), which tells of a shipload of 112 people looking for a fools’ paradise.
Nach anderen Quellen kam Brant bereits 1457 zur Welt.
www.ottosell.de /pynchon/brant.htm   (319 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant (?) by DÜRER, Albrecht
The silver point drawing presumably contains a portrait of the Basle legal scholar and humanist Sebastian Brant, created during the journey to the Netherlands.
Though his arms and hands are only sketched in, Dürer concentrated particularly on creating a natural depiction of the face.
In about 1520, when the portrait must have been produced, Brant had already gained international fame through his moralizing and satirizing poetic work, the Ship of Fools.
gallery.euroweb.hu /html/d/durer/2/11/5/12brant.html   (103 words)

  
 Sebastian Brant
He first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Latin poetry, and edited many ecclesiastical and legal works; but he is now only known by his famous satire, Das Narrenschiff (1494), a work the popularity and influence of which were not limited to Germany.
Under the form of an allegory -- a ship laden with fools and steered by fools to the fools' paradise of Narragonia -- Brant here lashes with unsparing vigor the weaknesses and vices of his time.
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 Sebastian Brant Quotes & Quotations, Biographies And Pictures.
Sebastian Brant Quotes & Quotations, Biographies And Pictures.
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Most of the information found on focusdep.com is released under the the GNU license.
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 Books by Sebastian Brant, compare prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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Die Stultifera Navis : Jakob Lochers Ubertragung Von Sebastian Brants Narrenschiff
Sebastian Brant Als Politischer Publizist : Zwei Flugblatt-Satiren Aus Den Folgejahren Des Sogenannten Reformreichstags Von 1495
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 Sebastian Brant: Ship of Fools, 1879751402, £30.00/$55.00, 0pp, 1993
Sebastian Brant: Ship of Fools, 1879751402, £30.00/$55.00, 0pp, 1993
Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools in Critical Perspective, 1800-1991
Until the mid 1960s, scholarship on The Ship of Fools (1494) by Sebastian Brant was characterised by a kind of academic schizophrenia.
www.boydell.co.uk /79751402.HTM   (395 words)

  
 Llewellyn's On-line Bookstore: Ship of Fools Tarot: Based on the Art of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff
Ship of Fools Tarot: Based on the Art of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff
It is the Fool's Journey spelled out in images that are fun and funny, strange and elegant.
Every card is closely inspired by the much-loved classic of German culture, Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools), by Sebastian Brant.
www.llewellyn.com /bookstore/book.php?pn=J161   (214 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sebastian Brant
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A German humanist and poet, born at Stasburg in 1457 or 1458; died at the same place, 1521.
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 Brant, Sebastian :: B : Gourt
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 – May 10, 1521), German humanist and satirist, was born in Strasbourg.
Sebastian Brant - Short biography of the German humanist and poet.
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 Moralist fool (from Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, 1494)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Moralist fool (from Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, 1494)
oralist fool (from Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, 1494)
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