French Humanist Tragedy
French Humanist Tragedy

Author: Donald Stone

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780719005671

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In this, the first study of its kind to appear in English, the author - a professor of Romance Languages at Harvard University - discusses the concepts which determined the nature and function of French humanist tragedy and the importance of those concepts with regard to the genre's relationship to medieval, ancient and French classical drama. The emphasis on conceptual rather than formal considerations reveals strong ties between tragedy and other sixteenth century genres, now largely neglected. The book also shows that the formal changes in tragedy introduced by the humanists are less consequential than once thought, and in his last chapter suggests that a deeper appreciation of the character of French humanist tragedy can shed new light on the coming of classicism.

The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism

Author: Manfred Landfester

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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"For the thinkers, artists and scholars of the Renaissance, antiquity was a major source of inspiration; it provided renewed modes of scholarship, led to corrections of received doctrine and proved a wellspring of new achievements in almost every area of human life. The 130 articles in this volume cover not only well known figures of the Renaissance such as Copernicus, Dürer, and Erasmus but also overall themes such as architecture, agriculture, economics, philosophy and philology as well as many others."--Provided by publisher.

Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy
Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy

Author: Jill Kraye

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1134664478

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This volume examines the distinctive and important role played by humanism in the development of early modern philosophy. Focusing on individual authors as well as intellectual trends, this collection of essays aims to portray the humanist movement as an essential part of the philosophy of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

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.

Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622

Author: Ernest R. Holloway III

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-06-22

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 900420962X

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The intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader context of the northern European Renaissance and French humanism and critically re-evaluates the primary historical documents of the period, namely James Melville's Autobiography and Diary and the Melvini epistolae. By considering Melville as a humanist, university reformer, ecclesiastical statesman, and man, an effort has been made to determine his contribution to the flowering of the Renaissance and the growth of humanism in Scotland during the early modern period.

The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe During the Renaissance
The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe During the Renaissance

Author: A. Goodman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1317870220

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An up-to-date synthesis of the spread and impact of humanism in Europe. A team of Renaissance scholars of international reputation including Peter Burke, Sydney Anglo, George Holmes and Geoffrey Elton, offers the student, academic and general reader an up-to-date synthesis of our current understanding of the spread and impact of humanism in Europe. Taken together, these essays throw a new and searching light on the Renaissance as a European phenomenon.

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France

Author: Lyndan Warner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1317028007

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The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.