Italian Humanism And Medieval Rhetoric

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025826053

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Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric by Ronald G. Witt Pdf

These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces the influence of medieval political thought on the rise of the modern conception of republicanism; others focus on the medieval art of letter writing and its place in the medieval cultural context; while still others analyse the often contradictory thought of the early humanist, Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), who struggled to reconcile his classical learning with his medieval allegiances. In the collection as a whole humanism emerges as a literary movement drawing as heavily on patristic and medieval culture as on antiquity. Awareness of its various debts permits recognition of what humanism itself contributed to the development of western thought and ethics.

Author : Stephen Gersh,Bert Roest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402619

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Medieval and Renaissance Humanism by Stephen Gersh,Bert Roest Pdf

This collection of essays explores in an innovative way the humanist aspects of medieval and post-medieval intellectual life and their multifarious appropriation during the early modern and modern period.

Author : Albert Rabil, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005308476

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The First Century of Italian Humanism by Ferdinand Schevill Pdf

A study in the intellectual history of Italy between 1325 & 1450. During this period there began to define itself quite clearly a new attitude toward life which the documents incorporated in this volume offer an opportunity to explore.

Author : Roberto Weiss
Publisher : London, Hutchinson
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Humanism
ISBN : UOM:39015020676212

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The Spread of Italian Humanism by Roberto Weiss Pdf

"Professor Weiss traces the gradual growth of the Renaissance from the late thirteenth century onwards. He devotes a whole chapter to Boccaccio and Petrarch, another to Sannazzaro, Castiglione, Ariosto and Machiavelli. One of his recurrent themes is the conflict between Platonism and Aristotelianism in the thought of the times. After considering the novel literary genres developed by the Italian writers, he turns to the influence of humanism in western Europe generally, and in particular the rise of Petrarchism and pastoral literature in France, Spain, and England. A final chapter discusses Renaissance fiction which, with de Rojas' play, La Celestine, the work of Rabelais, and the Spanish picaresque novel, looks forward to Cervantes and Shakespeare." -- Book jacket.

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Riccardo Fubini
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0822330024

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Humanism and Secularization by Riccardo Fubini Pdf

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Author : Nancy S. Struever
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Robert Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139429016

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Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Robert Black Pdf

Based on the study of over 500 surviving manuscript school books, this comprehensive 2001 study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissance Italy contains some surprising conclusions. Robert Black's analysis finds that continuity and conservatism, not innovation, characterize medieval and Renaissance teaching. The study of classical texts in medieval Italian schools reached its height in the twelfth century; this was followed by a collapse in the thirteenth century, an effect on school teaching of the growth of university education. This collapse was only gradually reversed in the two centuries that followed: it was not until the later 1400s that humanists began to have a significant impact on education. Scholars of European history, of Renaissance studies, and of the history of education will find that this deeply researched and broad-ranging book challenges much inherited wisdom about education, humanism and the history of ideas.

Author : Jerrold E. Seigel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400878826

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Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism by Jerrold E. Seigel Pdf

The combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and precise analysis of the views of four major humanists-Petrarch, Salutati, Bruni, and Valla—Professor Seigel seeks to establish that they were first of all professional rhetoricians, completely committed to the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. He then explores the broader problem of the "external history" of humanism, and reopens basic questions about Renaissance culture. He departs from the views held by such scholars as Hans Baron and Lauro Martines and expands the conclusions suggested by Paul Oskar Kristeller. The result is a stimulating, controversial study that rejects some of the claims made for the humanists and indicates achievements and limitations. Originally published in 1968. 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 : John M. McManamon, S.J.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469639673

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Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism by John M. McManamon, S.J. Pdf

By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture. By examining hundreds of funeral speeches, he provides a valuable overview of major civic issues and humanistic themes, adding significant new material to the history of rhetoric. When Italian humanists spoke at funerals, they took this unique opportunity to press for their reformist goals. Originally published in 1989. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Martin Camargo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351219365

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Essays on Medieval Rhetoric by Martin Camargo Pdf

Originally published between 1981 and 2003, the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. Most of the essays are concerned with the teaching of prose composition, especially the art of letter writing known as the ars dictaminis, and many of them focus on specific textbooks that were used for such instruction, in particular those composed in England from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Individual essays are devoted to works by major figures such as Saint Augustine, Peter of Blois, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf; to teaching programmes at important academic centres such as Oxford and Bologna; and to such topics as the relationship between the art of letter writing and the art of poetry, the oral dimension of medieval epistolography, the manuscript traditions of influential textbooks, medieval genre terminology, and the position of medieval rhetoric within a continuous disciplinary history rooted in classical rhetoric.

Author : Roberto Weiss
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Dawn of Humanism in Italy by Roberto Weiss Pdf

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107376687

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

This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated analysis of Latin writings produced in the area, examining not only religious, literary, and legal texts. Ronald G. Witt characterizes the changes reflected in these Latin writings as products of the interaction of thought with economic, political, and religious tendencies in Italian society as well as with intellectual influences coming from abroad. His research ultimately traces the early emergence of humanism in northern Italy in the mid thirteenth century to the precocious development of a lay intelligentsia in the region, whose participation in the culture of Latin writing fostered the beginnings of the intellectual movement which would eventually revolutionize all of Europe.

Author : James J. Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000951622

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Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by James J. Murphy Pdf

The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to construct a history of that thousand years of language activity. Some essays deal with individual writers like Giles of Rome, Peter Ramus, Gulielmus Traversanus, or Antonio Nebrija, some focus on the influence of Cicero and Quintilian and other ancient sources. The essays dealing specifically with education open up different inquiries into the ways language use was promoted, and by whom. Others explore the relations between Latin rhetoric and medieval English literature and, finally, several deal with the impact of printing, a subject still not completely understood.