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Medieval and Renaissance humanism : rhetoric, representation and reform / edited by Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest.
Van Pelt Library DG737.55 .E34 2014
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Fine Arts Library NC1807.G3 C34 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history 0920-8607 ; v. 115.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 115
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Literature, Medieval.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism--Congresses.
- European literature.
- Humanism--Congresses.
- Humanism.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Summary:
- This collection of essays explores in an innovative way the humanist aspects of medieval and post-medieval intellectual life and their multifarious appropriation during the early modern and modern period.
- Contents:
- Eriugenian Developments of Ciceronian Topical Theory / Catherine Kavanagh 1
- Eriugena's topical theory 7
- Orfeo ed Euridice, Philology and Mercury / Nancy van Deusen 31
- Introduction: an allegorical narrative 31
- Medieval principles of composition as humanistic inquiry 35
- Relationship reconsidered: the marriage between disciplines 43
- The place of music in medieval humanism 48
- Elective Affinities / Marinus Burcht Pranger 55
- Introduction: in search of an interiorised and subjective self 55
- 'Elective affinities' between Abelard and Bernard 60
- Abelard's playfulness 62
- Romanticising readings 67
- Affinity of mood 67
- Monastic playfulness 69
- Petrarchan Cartographic Writing / Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. 73
- Introduction: Petrarch's poetic representation of space 73
- Petrarch's self-fashioning as a master of distant knowledge 77
- Retroactive fictionalization 80
- Petrarch's inward turn 88
- In Search of Fame: Self-Representation in Neo-Latin Humanism / Karl Enenkel 93
- Petrarch 96
- Raffaele Reggio and Helius Eobanus Hessus 104
- Rhetoric of Innovation and Recourse to Tradition in Humanist Pedagogical Discourse / Bert Roest 115
- Introduction: the humanist claim to novelty 115
- Humanising the medieval period 118
- Assessing the humanist rhetoric of innovation 121
- Proto-humanist curricular developments 130
- The innovative character of humanist reform 135
- The apex of humanist pedagogy: Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon 139
- Humanist Values In The Early Modern Drama / Christel Meier-Staubach 149
- Mussato and Melanchthon 150
- Humanist values and programmatic aims 154
- 1. Language/Latinitas 154
- 2. Elegance of speech 156
- 3. Rules of conduct and choice of one's way of life 158
- 4. Academic subjects/Contest of scientific disciplines 159
- 5. Status of poetry 160
- 6. Political ethics 162
- Why Did Alberti not Illustrate His De Pictura? / Robert Zwijnenberg 167
- The lack of illustrations 170
- Painting and humanist rhetoric 173
- Finding a new vocabulary 175
- The mathematical basis of the art of painting 179
- The Underworld of Chaucer's House of Fame / John Kerr 185
- Virgil, Claudian, and Dante as authorities on hell 186
- Chaucer's conception of underworld 190
- Intertextual relationship with Dante's Inferno 198
- Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Pinder / Catrien Santing 203
- Doctores and bibliophagi 205
- Pinder's performance 208
- Pinder's Specula 212
- Intellectual horizon 220
- Jewish Intellectual Culture in Renaissance Context / Wout Jac. van Bekkum 227
- Italy and Spain 227
- Abraham Ibn Ezra and Immanuel of Rome 230
- Levita 233
- Sphorno 234
- Leone Ebreo 235
- Elijah del Medigo 236
- Leon Modena 238
- Judah Moscato 239
- Pound's Humanistic Paradigm for the Rejuvenation of Modern Poetics / Charlotte Ward 243
- Introduction: anecdotal epiphanies 243
- Pound's use of Gavin Douglas 244
- Historical scholarship and medieval arcana 248
- The rejection of Petrarch 260.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a workshop held Oct. 19-21, 2000 at the Centre for Classical, Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies of the University of Groningen.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004132740
- OCLC:
- 52090713
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