Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters

Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004294651

Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters is a volume dedicated to John Monfasani, renowned scholar of Latin and Greek rhetoric and philosophy. These essays range from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, in genre from learned notes to editiones principes, and in discipline from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction to Monfasani’s life and works, and a list of his opera open the volume. Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sándor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward.

Renaissance Thought and the Arts

Renaissance Thought and the Arts
Author: Paul Oskar Kristeller
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0691214840

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107658926

An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.

Renaissance Thought

Renaissance Thought
Author: Robert Black
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001
Genre: Italy
ISBN: 9780415205931

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.

Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Author: Ann Moss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.

Renaissance Thought and Its Sources

Renaissance Thought and Its Sources
Author: Paul Oskar Kristeller
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231045131

Representing an extraordinary lifetime of scholarship, Renaissance Thought and Its Sources offers a systematic account of major themes in Renaissance philosophy, science, and literature. Here, in some of Paul Oskar Kristeller's most comprehensive and ambitious writings, is an exploration of the distinctive trends and concepts of the Renaissance, grounded in detailed historical investigation.