Pius II, "el più expeditivo pontifice" : selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, 1405-1464 / edited by Zweder von Martels and Arjo Vanderjagt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martels, Z. R. W. M. von.

Vanderjagt, Arie Johan.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history 0920-8607 ; v. 117.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 117

Language:

English

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.

Pius.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Pius 2nd, "el più expeditivo pontefice"

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

Text in English, German, and Latin.

Contents:

Enkyklios paideia in the work of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann

From Samarkand to Scythia: reinventions of Asia in Renaissance geography and political thought / Margaret Meserve

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a historiographer: Asia / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann

The new Landesgeschichte: Aeneas Silvius on Austria and Bohemia / Rolando Montecalvo

Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De curialium miseriis and Peter of Blois / Keith Sidwell

Alltag an der Kurie: Papst Pius II. (1458-1464) im Spiegel zeitgenossischer Berichte / Claudia Märtl

Pius II and Francesco Sforza. the history of two allies / Marcello Simonetta

Pius II and the formation of the ecclesiastical institutions of Pienza / Giuseppe Chironi

'Reject Aeneas!' Pius II on the errors of his youth / Thomas M. Izbicki

'More matter and less art.' Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and the delicate balance between eloquent words and deeds / Zweder von Martels

The fruit of love. Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini about his illegitimate child / Zweder von Martels.

Notes:

"This volume finds its origin in a workshop which was held at the University of Groningen on December 12-13, 1997, entitled 'Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini as a Transitional Figure between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004131906

OCLC:

52387924