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The humanist world of Renaissance Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University.
LIBRA DG737.55 .M39 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maxson, Brian, 1978-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanism--Italy--Florence--History.
- Humanism.
- Renaissance--Italy--Florence.
- Renaissance.
- History.
- Italy--Florence.
- Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
- Florence (Italy).
- Physical Description:
- x, 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a social conception of the humanist movement
- Learned connections and the humanist movement
- Literary and social humanists
- The social origins of the Florentine humanists
- The humanist demands of ritual
- Failure of the literary humanists or literary failure of the civic humanists?
- The rise of the social humanists, 1400-1455
- Humanism as a means to social status, 1456-1485.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107043916
- 1107043913
- 9781107619647
- 1107619645
- OCLC:
- 852825113
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