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Author : Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521407243

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This new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.

Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521436243

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From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.

Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1624661440

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By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows that Renaissance thinkers had a lot to say, not only about the ancient world--one of their habitual passions--but also about the self, how civic experience was configured, the arts, the roles and contributions of women, the new science, the 'new' world, and so much more. --Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University

Author : John Monfasani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351904396

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Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, and Niccolò Perotti, and on large-scale movements, such as the spread of Italian humanism, Ciceronianism, Biblical criticism, and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy. In addition to entering into the persistent debate on the nature of the Renaissance, the articles in the volume also engage what of late have become controversial topics, namely, the shape and significance of Renaissance humanism and the character of the Platonic Academy in Florence.

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521764742

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Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.

Author : Patrick Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107111862

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This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, one of the most important cultural movements in Western history. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker explores the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.

Author : Angelo Mazzocco
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047410246

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Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, this volume’s essays give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, including its origin, connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, classical learning, religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae.

Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1000948412

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Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'

Author : Brian Maxson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1107043913

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.