Medieval and renaissance humanism : rhetoric, representation, and reform /

This volume discusses humanist aspects of medieval and Renaissance intellectual life and thought and of their appropriation by modern history and literature. It charts the humanist representations of the scholarly enterprise, the self-representation of the intellectual, the representation of individ...

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Other Authors: Gersh, Stephen (Editor), Roest, Bert, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 115.
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Summary:This volume discusses humanist aspects of medieval and Renaissance intellectual life and thought and of their appropriation by modern history and literature. It charts the humanist representations of the scholarly enterprise, the self-representation of the intellectual, the representation of individuality in humanist literature, as well as the problem field of Renaissance humanism as an ideological programme of educational, moral, and political reform. The volume is particularly useful for medievalists and Renaissance scholars, as well as for historians specialised in the history of medieval and Renaissance art, medicine music and education. Contributors include: Wout Jac. van Bekkum, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. , Karl Enenkel, Catherine Kavanagh, John Kerr, Christel Meier-Staubach, Marinus Burcht Pranger, Bert Roest, Catrien Santing, Nancy van Deusen, Charlotte Ward, and Robert Zwijnenberg.
Item Description:Papers presented at a workshop held Oct. 19-21, 2000 at the Centre for Classical, Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies of the University of Groningen.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index.
ISBN:1423714288
9781423714286
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9789047402619
1280467843
9781280467844
9786610467846
6610467846
ISSN:2214-2517 ;
Language:English.
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