Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics

Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics
Author: Crofton Black
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047410645

This study shows how Giovanni Pico della Mirandola used Neoplatonic and kabbalistic ideas to develop an innovative theory of biblical allegory. Based on epistemology and intellectual ascent, his theory relates to scholastic debate over the action of the intellect.

Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus

Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus
Author: Erika Rummel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004145737

This handbook offers a new reading of the humanist-scholastic debate over biblical humanism, lending a voice to scholastic critics who have been unfairly neglected in the historical narrative. The investigations cover controversies beginning in quattrocento Italy and spreading north of the Alps in the 16th century.

The Scandal of Kabbalah

The Scandal of Kabbalah
Author: Yaacob Dweck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-12-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691162158

The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a rang.

Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
Author: John Monfasani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351904396

Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, and Niccolò Perotti, and on large-scale movements, such as the spread of Italian humanism, Ciceronianism, Biblical criticism, and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy. In addition to entering into the persistent debate on the nature of the Renaissance, the articles in the volume also engage what of late have become controversial topics, namely, the shape and significance of Renaissance humanism and the character of the Platonic Academy in Florence.

Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance

Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004442278

An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.

The Artist as Reader

The Artist as Reader
Author: Heiko Damm
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004242236

Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance
Author: Ilana Zinguer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004212566

Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century. However, interest in Jewish and Hebraic sources had already increased during the early Renaissance, as an integral part of the renewed attention to ancient cultures, mostly Greek and Roman, as well as eastern cultures – from Egypt to India. This volume presents a selection of papers from the international conference Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance (University of Haifa, May, 2009), that trace the humanist encounter with Hebrew and Jewish sources during that period. The chapters included in this volume not only illuminate the ways in which Christian scholars encountered Hebraic sources and integrated them into their general worldview, but also present the encounters of Jewish scholars with humanist culture.

New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance

New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004233644

This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of European intellectual culture. The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Eugenio Garin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose works have influenced critical discourse on modernity and Renaissance Humanism over the last one hundred and fifty years. The studies presented in this collection contribute to this discussion from a variety of perspectives: scientific, theological, political, and literary. The result is a multifaceted illumination of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance.

Platonism

Platonism
Author: Valery Rees
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004437428

Platonism, Ficino to Foucault explores some key chapters in the history Platonic philosophy from the revival of Plato in the fifteenth century to the new reading of Platonic dialogues promoted by the so-called ‘Critique of Modernity’.