The great humanists : an introduction

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The great humanists : an introduction

Jonathan Arnold

I.B. Tauris, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-319) and index

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Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians and philosophers of the period, now collectively known as the Christian Humanists. "The Great Humanists" provides an invaluable context to the philosophical, political and spiritual state of Europe on the eve of the Reformation through inter-related biographical sketches of Erasmus, Thomas More, Marsilio Ficino, Petrarch, Johann Reuchlin, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and many others. The legacy of these thinkers is still relevant and widely-studied today, and this book will make invaluable reading for scholars and students of philosophy and early-modern European history.

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Introduction PART I: ITALY 1. Francesco Petrarch: The Father of Humanism 2. Lorenzo Valla: The Confrontational Philologist 3. Marsilio Ficino: The Platonic Theologian 4. Pico della Mirandola: The Italian Cabbalist PART II: THE LOW COUNTRIES 5. Rudolph Agricola: Father of Northern European Humanism 6. Desiderius Erasmus: The Prince of Humanists PART III: GERMANY 7. Johann Reuchlin: The Great German Hebraist 8. Phillip Melanchthon: The Lutheran Humanist PART IV: ENGLAND 9. John Colet: The Would-be Reforming Dean of St. Paul's 10. Thomas More: The King's Good Servant, but God's First 11. Thomas Linacre and the English Erasmians PART V: FRANCE 12. Lefevre d'Etaples: The Greatest French Humanist PART VI: SPAIN 14. Juan Luis Vives : The Spanish Erasmian APPENDICES Appendix I: Other Notable Humanists Appendix II: Glossary of Terms and other Notable Figures

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