Joseph Scaliger: Textual criticism and exegesis

Joseph Scaliger: Textual criticism and exegesis
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198148500

This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of the late Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods. Volume I of this study was published in 1983, and received wide critical attention.

Style, Rhetoric, and Rhythm

Style, Rhetoric, and Rhythm
Author: Morris W. Croll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400879205

These essays are, according to Marjorie Nicholson, “the most illuminating articles we have on the important subject of prose style. They were pioneer articles which have remained standard.” Originally published in 1966. 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.

Imitating Authors

Imitating Authors
Author: Colin Burrow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198838085

People learn by imitating other people. Authors do the same. This book explains how authors from the earliest stages of Western literature to the present day have imitated each other

Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622

Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622
Author: Ernest R. Holloway III
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2011-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900420962X

The intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and critically re-evaluates the primary historical documents of the period, namely James Melville's Autobiography and Diary and the Melvini epistolae. By considering Melville as a humanist, university reformer, ecclesiastical statesman, and man, an effort has been made to determine his contribution to the flowering of the Renaissance and the growth of humanism in Scotland during the early modern period.