Renaissance Thought: A Reader (Routledge Readers in History) - Softcover

Black, Robert

 
9780415205931: Renaissance Thought: A Reader (Routledge Readers in History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041520593X ISBN 13: 9780415205931
Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays on the Renaissance, focusing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define and this book enables a deeper understanding of the essential features of the Renaissance and humanism. Knowledge of Renaissance thought illuminates other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy.

Renaissance Thought explores all the important themes and influential figures including:

* humanism and scholasticism
* the scholarship of Politician
* printers and readers in Italy
* Ptolemy of Lucca
* Petrarch
* Florentine constitutionalism and Medici ascendancy
* the humanist challenge to medieval German culture.

This collection of articles is essential reading for students of the Renaissance. The book will allow readers to contribute to the debate on the Renaissance, a theme which has never ceased to stimulate intellectual interest since the earliest days of the Renaissance itself.

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About the Author

Robert Black

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041520593X
ISBN 13 
9780415205931
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
328

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