Robert Black
Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays on the Renaissance, focusing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define and this book enables a deeper understanding of the essential features of the Renaissance and humanism. Knowledge of Renaissance thought illuminates other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy.
Renaissance Thought explores all the important themes and influential figures including:
* humanism and scholasticism
* the scholarship of Politician
* printers and readers in Italy
* Ptolemy of Lucca
* Petrarch
* Florentine constitutionalism and Medici ascendancy
* the humanist challenge to medieval German culture.
This collection of articles is essential reading for students of the Renaissance. The book will allow readers to contribute to the debate on the Renaissance, a theme which has never ceased to stimulate intellectual interest since the earliest days of the Renaissance itself.
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Renaissance thought is a good niche area with very little competition - there is no reader in existence which collects together the works from important historians on Renaissance thought and thinkers
Covers all the key areas and figures including humanism, Ptolemy, Polititian, Petrarch, the Medicis, Platonism, scholasticism etc.
Includes papers by well known authors such as Gombrich, Kristeller, Grafton and Nauert
Will have very strong crossover potential for courses on Renaissance philosophy and religion
1. Renaissance and Humanism 2. Renaissance Scholarship and Learning 3. Political Thought and 'civic humanism' 4. Renaissance Philosphy 5. Spread of Humanism
1. Renaissance and Humanism 2. Renaissance Scholarship and Learning 3. Political Thought and 'civic humanism' 4. Renaissance Philosphy 5. Spread of Humanism
This is a fascinating collection of essays focusing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. An essential read for all students of this era.
'It is hard to think of a better introduction to recent scholarship of Renaissance thought and as such it should be required reading for all students of the Renaissance.' - Renaissance Journal
Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays focussing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philogy, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Renaissance and Humanism 2. Renaissance Scholarship and Learning 3. Political Thought and 'civic humanism' 4. Renaissance Philosphy 5. Spread of Humanism
Klappentext
This fascinating collection of essays successfully defines the essential features of the Renaissance and humanism. Exploring important themes, key debates and influential figures, this reader also brings the areas of philology, political thought, and scholastic and platonic philosophy into the fold of the Renaissance.
