Humanism And The Renaissance

Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : John Monfasani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351904391

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Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times by John Monfasani Pdf

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 : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004510289

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Humanism, Universities, and Jesuit Education in Late Renaissance Italy by Paul F. Grendler Pdf

An authoritative account of the intellectual and educational history of the late Italian Renaissance. Twenty essays on major themes, institutions, and persons of the Italian Renaissance by one of its most distinguished living historians.

Author : Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Margaret L. King
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661440

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Renaissance Humanism by Margaret L. King Pdf

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 : Zachary Sayre Schiffman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000087798579

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Humanism and the Renaissance by Zachary Sayre Schiffman Pdf

A volume in the "Problems in European Civilization" series, this book features a collection of secondary source essays focusing on aspects of the Renaissance and humanist beliefs. The proven PEC format features key scholarship, chapter and essay introductions, and extensive, up-to-date suggestions for further reading. All selections in the text are edited for both content and length.

Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521436249

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism by Jill Kraye Pdf

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 : Charles G. Nauert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Charles G. Nauert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000946925

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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 : Albert Rabil, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Brian Maxson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043916

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence by Brian Maxson Pdf

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

Author : Charles G. Nauert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Patrick Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111868

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Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror by Patrick Baker Pdf

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 : Alejandro Coroleu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443861052

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Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540) by Alejandro Coroleu Pdf

With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.

Author : William James Bouwsma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Humanism
ISBN : UCAL:B4088233

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The Interpretation of Renaissance Humanism by William James Bouwsma Pdf