Renaissance Thought

Renaissance Thought

Author: Robert Black

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780415205931

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This is a fascinating collection of essays focusing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. An essential read for all students of this era.


Renaissance Thought and Its Sources

Renaissance Thought and Its Sources

Author: Paul Oskar Kristeller

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780231045131

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Representing an extraordinary lifetime of scholarship, Renaissance Thought and Its Sources offers a systematic account of major themes in Renaissance philosophy, science, and literature. Here, in some of Paul Oskar Kristeller's most comprehensive and ambitious writings, is an exploration of the distinctive trends and concepts of the Renaissance, grounded in detailed historical investigation.


Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Author: Ann Moss

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.


Renaissance Thought and the Arts

Renaissance Thought and the Arts

Author: Paul Oskar Kristeller

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0691214840

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Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword.


Reflections on Medieval and Renaissance Thought

Reflections on Medieval and Renaissance Thought

Author: Darci Hill

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1443873764

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The collection of articles gathered in this volume grew naturally and spontaneously out of the Second International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Thought hosted by Sam Houston State University in April 2016. This anthology reflects the diverse fields of study represented at the conference. The purpose of the conference, and consequently of this book of essays, is partially to establish a place for medieval and renaissance scholarship to thrive in our current intellectual landscape. This volume is not designed solely for scholars, but also for generalists who wish to augment their knowledge and appreciation of an array of disciplines; it is an intellectual smorgasbord of philosophy, poetry, drama, popular culture, linguistics, art, religion, and history.


Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought

Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought

Author: Margaret MESERVE

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0674040953

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Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from—and contributed to—contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and long-standing European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.


Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

Author: Debora K. Shuger

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780802080479

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By examining orthodox methods of thought in the Renaissance, the author tries to reconstruct a picture of the dominant culture of the period in England between 1580 and 1630.