Interpretations of Renaissance humanism
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Interpretations of Renaissance humanism
(Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 143)
Brill, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-314) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, such as the time and causes of its origin, its connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, its classical learning, its religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae. Their interpretations are varied to the point of being contradictory. The essays bear the imprint of the work of the eminent scholars of the second half of the twentieth century, especially Kristeller's, and demonstrate an awareness of the various modes of critical inquiry that have prevailed in recent years. As such they are an important exemplar of current scholarship on Renaissance humanism and are, therefore, indispensable to the scholar who wishes to explore this pivotal cultural movement.
Contributors include: Robert Black, Alison Brown, Riccardo Fubini, Paul F. Grendler, James Hankins, Eckhard Kessler, Arthur F. Kinney, Angelo Mazzocco, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Massimo Miglio, John Monfasani, Charles G. Nauert, and Ronald G. Witt.
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction, Angelo Mazzocco
PART I
1. Kristeller's Humanists as Heirs of the Medieval Dictatores, Ronald G. Witt
2. The Origins of Humanism, Robert Black
3. Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools and Universities, Paul F. Grendler
4. Curial Humanism Seen Through the Prism of the Papal Library, Massimo Miglio
5. Humanism and the Medieval Encyclopedic Tradition, Giuseppe Mazzotta
PART II
6. Humanism and Scholasticism: Toward an Historical Definition, Riccardo Fubini
7. Religion and the Modernity of Renaissance Humanism, James Hankins
8. Rethinking "Christian Humanism", Charles G. Nauert
9. Renaissance Humanism: the Rhetorical Turn, Eckhard Kessler
10. Literary Humanism in the Renaissance, Arthur F. Kinney
PART III
11. Petrarch: Founder of Renaissance Humanism?, Angelo Mazzocco
12. Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond, and Chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (With an Edition and Translation), John Monfasani
13. Reinterpreting Renaissance Humanism: Marcello Adriani and the Recovery of Lucretius, Alison Brown
Bibliography
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