Jill Kraye (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Herausgeber: Jill, Kraye; Kraye, Jill

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourteen original essays in this 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. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780521436243
• ISBN-10: 0521436249
• Artikelnr.: 22348764

Inhaltsangabe

1. The origins of humanism Nicholas Mann
2. Classical scholarship Michael D. Reeve
3. Humanism in script and print in the fifteenth century Martin Davies
4. The humanist reform of Latin and Latin teaching Kristian Jensen
5. Humanist rhetoric and logic Peter Mack
6. Humanists and the Bible Alistair Hamilton
7. Humanism and the origins of modern political thought James Hankins
8. Philologists and philosophers Jill Kraye
9. Artists and humanists Charles Hope and Elizabeth McGrath
10. Vernacular humanism in the sixteenth century Warren Boutcher
11. The new science and the traditions of humanism Anthony Grafton
12. Humanism and Italian literature M. L. McLaughlin
13. Humanism and English literature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Clare Carroll
14. Humanism and seventeenth-century English literature Joseph Loewenstein
A guide to further reading in English
Biographical index.