Four Great Humanists
Author: Cornelius Beach Bradley
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 24
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The Great Humanists
Author: Jonathan Arnold
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0857720805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn 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.
Four Great Humanists, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Cornelius Beach Bradley
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781330534496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Four Great Humanists, Vol. 9 There is one master problem of the ages; - a problem at which have toiled all generations of men, all races, all conditions, all times, all societies; - a problem which includes all others, summing up in its own vast synthesis everything that elsewhere is separately worked out as religion, philosophy, social order, art, science, or mastery of the material world. It is the human problem, as one of its latest students has called it: - how to make man truly human; how to bring him into the inheritance which is plainly his; how to realize for him the kingly destiny which all augury foretells; how to crown him - individually and socially, with that perfection of strength, beauty, and happiness in himself and in his surroundings, without which his. life, however splendid in outward circumstance, must ever seem forlorn and tragic. The ages have toiled at this problem; but for the most part merely on some special element or factor in it, without any adequate vision of its vast scope - without clear consciousness even of what they were doing. Only twice, so far as we know, in the history of the race has the problem as a whole come clearly into view, and received the conscious consideration it calls for: - once in Plato's time, and once again in ours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism
Author: Jerrold E. Seigel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1400878829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe combination of rhetoric and philosophy appeared in the ancient world through Cicero, and revived as an ideal in the Renaissance. By a careful and precise analysis of the views of four major humanists-Petrarch, Salutati, Bruni, and Valla—Professor Seigel seeks to establish that they were first of all professional rhetoricians, completely committed to the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. He then explores the broader problem of the "external history" of humanism, and reopens basic questions about Renaissance culture. He departs from the views held by such scholars as Hans Baron and Lauro Martines and expands the conclusions suggested by Paul Oskar Kristeller. The result is a stimulating, controversial study that rejects some of the claims made for the humanists and indicates achievements and limitations. Originally published in 1968. 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.
Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance
Author: Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-07
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1000948412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
Author: Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521407243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.
The Great Humanists
Author: Jonathan Arnold
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780755622603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- PART I: ITALY -- 1. Francesco Petrarch: The Father of Humanism -- 2. Lorenzo Valla: The Confrontational Philologist -- 3. Marsilio Ficino: The Platonic Theologian 4. Pico della Mirandola: The Italian Cabbalist -- PART II: THE LOW COUNTRIES -- 5. Rudolph Agricola: Father of Northern European Humanism -- 6. Desiderius Erasmus: The Prince of Humanists -- PART III: GERMANY -- 7. Johann Reuchlin: The Great German Hebraist -- 8. Phillip Melanchthon: The Lutheran Humanist -- PART IV: ENGLAND -- 9. John Colet: The Would-be Reforming Dean of St. Paul's -- 10. Thomas More: The King's Good Servant, but God's First -- 11. Thomas Linacre and the English Erasmians -- PART V: FRANCE -- 12. Lefèvre d'Étaples: The Greatest French Humanist -- PART VI: SPAIN 14. Juan Luis Vives : The Spanish Erasmian -- APPENDICES -- Appendix I: Other Notable Humanists -- Appendix II: Glossary of Terms and other Notable Figures.
Humanist Educational Treatises
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674030879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides new translations, commissioned for the I Tatti Renaissance Library, of four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from the early humanists efforts to reform medieval education."
Humanism
Author: Tony Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-10-19
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1134836120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumanism offers students a clear and lucid introductory guide to the complexities of Humanism, one of the most contentious and divisive of artistic or literary concepts. Showing how the concept has evolved since the Renaissance period, Davies discusses humanism in the context of the rise of Fascism, the onset of World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath. Humanism provides basic definitions and concepts, a critique of the religion of humanity, and necessary background on religious, sexual and political themes of modern life and thought, while enlightening the debate between humanism, modernism and antihumanism through the writings and works of such key figures as Pico Erasmus, Milton, Nietzsche, and Foucault.
On Four Modern Humanists
Author: Arthur R Evans Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1400871964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive experts present their viewpoints on four of the most important figures in recent intellectual and cultural history. Professor Egon Schwarz evaluates Hofmannsthal as a critic; Professors C. V. Bock and Lother Helbing combine forces in an analysis of Gundolf; Professor Yakov Malkiel has provided an evocative, ornately styled document luimain on Kantorowicz; Professor Evans presents the first substantial study of Curtius. The combined insight of the authors gives us a new and better understanding of these cultural figures, their associations with and influences on each other, and the broad impact they still have. Originally published in 1970. 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.
