The Great Humanists
The Great Humanists

Author: Jonathan Arnold

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-10-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0857732234

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Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians and philosophers of the period, now collectively known as the Christian Humanists. "The Great Humanists" provides an invaluable context to the philosophical, political and spiritual state of Europe on the eve of the Reformation through inter-related biographical sketches of Erasmus, Thomas More, Marsilio Ficino, Petrarch, Johann Reuchlin, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and many others. The legacy of these thinkers is still relevant and widely-studied today, and this book will make invaluable reading for scholars and students of philosophy and early-modern European history.

The Medieval English Universities
The Medieval English Universities

Author: Alan B. Cobban

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1351885804

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First published in 1988, this book traces the evolution of Oxford and Cambridge from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries. An overall view of the functioning of the universities, touching on the development of the academic hierarchy and teaching offered by these institutions, is given in this single-volume reappraisal of the institutions.

John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England
John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England

Author: Charles B. Schmitt

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780773510050

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This perceptive study of John Case, teacher of philosophy at Oxford from the mid-1560s until his death in 1600 and author of expositions of Aristotle which became standard textbooks of the time, focuses on his intellectual and cultural milieu and reveals

Renaissance Humanism, Volume 2
Renaissance Humanism, Volume 2

Author: Albert Rabil, Jr.

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1512805769

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire
Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire

Author: John Flood

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-09-08

Total Pages: 2800

ISBN-13: 3110912740

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Petrarch’s revival of the ancient practice of laureation in 1341 led to the laurel being conferred on poets throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Within the Holy Roman Empire, Maximilian I conferred the title of Imperial Poet Laureate especially frequently, and later it was bestowed with unbridled liberality by Counts Palatine and university rectors too. This handbook identifies more than 1300 poets laureated within the Empire and adjacent territories between 1355 and 1804, giving (wherever possible) a sketch of their lives, a list of their published works, and a note of relevant scholarly literature. The introduction and various indexes provide a detailed account of a now largely forgotten but once significant literary-sociological phenomenon and illuminate literary networks in the Early Modern period. A supplementary Volume 5 of Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire. A Bio-bibliographical Handbook will be published in June 2019.

Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence
Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence

Author: Katharine Park

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1400855004

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Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originally published in 1985. 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.