Humanism And Renaissance Historiography

Author : E. B Fryde
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826427502

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Humanism and Renaissance Historiography by E. B Fryde Pdf

Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress. The career of Politian, the librarian of Lorenzo the Magnificent, illustrates the advance in scholarship during the fifteenth century. Using new evidence from the Vatican Library the author demonstrates that Lorenzo's library can be largely reconstructed and that a wealth of manuscripts was already available in his time.

Author : William James Bouwsma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Humanism
ISBN : UCAL:B4088233

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The Interpretation of Renaissance Humanism by William James Bouwsma Pdf

Author : Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521407249

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Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert (Jr.) Pdf

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 : Charles G. Nauert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000940244

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Humanism and Renaissance Civilization by Charles G. Nauert Pdf

The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps. Much of the early work involved the significant but often-overlooked history of humanism at the University of Cologne, notoriously the most anti-humanist of the German universities. Later essays deal with the most famous humanist of the early sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and natural philosophy, a broad term covering many subjects now associated with natural science, is the topic of three of the pieces published here. Taken as a whole, the book presents a detailed study of intellectual development among European elites.

Author : Robert Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000951455

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Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics by Robert Black Pdf

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black's research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at its origins, and the concept of the Renaissance as well as the theory and practice of historical writing. Black also updates his monograph on the Florentine chancellor, Benedetto Accolti. Machiavelli is the subject of three articles, focusing on his education and career in the Florentine chancery. Next come Black's seminal studies of Arezzo under Florentine rule, revealing the triangular relationship between centre, periphery and the Medici family. Finally, two articles on political thought examine the relative merits of monarchical and republican government for political thinkers on both sides of the Alps.

Author : Albert Rabil, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512805772

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Renaissance Humanism, Volume 3 by Albert Rabil, Jr. Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Bard Thompson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802863485

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Humanists and Reformers by Bard Thompson Pdf

Humanists and Reformers portrays in a single, expansive volume two great traditions in human history: the Italian Renaissance and the age of the Reformation. / Bard Thompson provides a fascinating survey of these important historical periods under pressure of their own cultural, social, and spiritual experiences, exploring the bonds that held Humanists and Reformers together and the estrangements that drove them apart. / Writing for students and general readers, Thompson offers a comprehensive account of all the major figures of the Renaissance and the Reformation, probing their thoughts, aspirations, and differences. / Accentuating the text are illustrations that provide a stunning panorama of the personalities, art, and architecture of these key historical periods.

Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0801883849

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The Lost Italian Renaissance by Christopher S. Celenza Pdf

A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.

Author : Charles G. Nauert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521839099

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Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe by Charles G. Nauert Pdf

The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.

Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400872299

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The Language of History in the Renaissance by Nancy S. Struever Pdf

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these ideas, and drawing on recent work in linguistic theory, including that of the French structuralists. Professor Struever studies the major shift in attitudes toward language and history which the Renaissance represents. One of the essential innovations of Renaissance Humanism is the substitution of rhetoric for dialectic as the dominant language discipline; rhetoric gives the Humanists their cohesion as a lay intellectual elite, as well as the force and direction of their thought. The author accepts the current trend in classical studies, the rehabilitation of the Sophists which finds its source in Nietzsche and includes the work of Rostagni, Untersteiner, and Buccellato, to reinstate rhetoric as the historical vehicle of Sophistic insight. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025247613

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Renaissance Humanism by Donald R. Kelley Pdf

In this engaging and elegant study, Donald R. Kelley presents a comprehensive survey of Renaissance humanism from its inception in Florence in the fourteenth century to its flowering throughout Europe.

Author : Joseph M. Levine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501746000

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Humanism and History by Joseph M. Levine Pdf

In this thoughtful and engaging book, Joseph M. Levine reveals how Renaissance humanists and their neoclassical progeny transformed the ways that the English practices history and viewed the past. Between 1500 and 1800, many of the methods of modern historiography were first introduced into England, where they developed under the influence of classical philology and the study of antiquities. English scholars gradually differentiated past from present and successfully detected and recovered the ancient Roman, Saxon, Celtic, and Norman cultures. A first attempt was also made to distinguish historical fact from fiction, and such legends as the Trojan origins of Britain and the Donation of Constantine were rejected. Levine sets the scene for these developments with an examination of the historical outlook of William Caxton at the end of the Middle Ages; he concludes with an essay on Edward Gibbon, whose work three centuries later, he argues, summarizes the whole achievement of early modern historiography. Along the way, Levine investigates such topics as the transformation the antiquarian enterprise into modern archaeology, the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns, the Gothic revival, and the influence of humanism on Francis Bacon and the new philosophy.

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521764742

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The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy by Ronald G. Witt Pdf

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

Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000948417

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Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance by Barbara C. Bowen Pdf

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 : Donald J. Wilcox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0674200268

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The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century by Donald J. Wilcox Pdf

Presenting a new interpretation of humanist historiography, Donald J. Wilcox traces the development of the art of historical writing among Florentine humanists in the fifteenth century. He focuses on the three chancellor historians of that century who wrote histories of Florence--Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and Bartolommeo della Scala--and proposes that these men, especially Bruni, had a new concept of historical reality and introduced a new style of writing to history. But, he declares, their great contributions to the development of historiography have not been recognized because scholars have adhered to their own historical ideals in judging the humanists rather than assessing them in the context of their own century. Mr. Wilcox introduces his study with a brief description of the historians and historical writing in Renaissance Florence. He then outlines the development of the scholarly treatment of humanist historiography and establishes the need for a more balanced interpretation. He suggests that both Hans Baron's conception of civic humanism and Paul Oscar Kristeller's emphasis on the rhetorical character of humanism were important developments in the general intellectual history of the Renaissance and, more specifically, that they provided a new perspective on the entire question of humanist historiography. The heart of the book is a close textual analysis of the works of each of the three historians. The author approaches their texts in terms of their own concerns and questions, examining three basic elements of their art. The first is the nature of the reality the historian is re- counting. Mr. Wilcox asks, "What interests the writer? What is the substance of his narrative? ... What does he choose from his sources ... and what does he ignore? What does he interpolate into the account by drawing on his own understanding of the nature of history?" The second is the various attitudes--moral judgments, historical conceptions, analytical views--with which the historian approaches his narrative. And the third is the aspect of humanist historiography to which previous scholars have paid the least attention: the historian's narrative technique. Mr. Wilcox identifies the difficulties involved in expressing historical ideas in narrative form and describes the means the historians developed for overcoming those difficulties. He emphasizes the positive value of rhetoric in their works and points out that they "sought by eloquence to teach men virtue." He devotes three chapters to Bruni, whom he considers the most original and important of the three historians. The next two chapters deal with Poggio, and the last with Scala. Throughout the book Mr. Wilcox exposes the internal connections among the three histories, thus illustrating the basic coherence of the humanist historical art.