Author: Patrick Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111862
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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.
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
Author: Patrick Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111862
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111862
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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.
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316358672
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated -- in short, he attempts to reconstruct humanist identity. What emerges is a small, coherent community dedicated primarily not to political ideology, a philosophy of man, an educational ethos, or moral improvement, but rather to the pursuit of classical Latin eloquence. Grasping the significance this stylistic ideal had for the humanists is essential to understanding both their sense of themselves and the importance they and others attached to their movement. For eloquence was no mere aesthetic affair but rather appeared to them as the guarantor of civilisation itself"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781316358672
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated -- in short, he attempts to reconstruct humanist identity. What emerges is a small, coherent community dedicated primarily not to political ideology, a philosophy of man, an educational ethos, or moral improvement, but rather to the pursuit of classical Latin eloquence. Grasping the significance this stylistic ideal had for the humanists is essential to understanding both their sense of themselves and the importance they and others attached to their movement. For eloquence was no mere aesthetic affair but rather appeared to them as the guarantor of civilisation itself"--
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107003628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107003628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities
Author: Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108988873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology – the invention of printing with moveable type – fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert – as well as many lesser-known scholars – challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108988873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology – the invention of printing with moveable type – fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert – as well as many lesser-known scholars – challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history.
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
Author: Charles G. Nauert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521839092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.
Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance
Author: L. B. T. Houghton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499929
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil's 'messianic' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499929
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil's 'messianic' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.
The Lost Italian Renaissance
Author: Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.
The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence
Author: Brian Maxson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Author: Marco Sgarbi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3319141694
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 3618
Book Description
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3319141694
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 3618
Book Description
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
In the Shadow of Leviathan
Author: Jeffrey R. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.