The humanist world of Renaissance Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxson, Brian, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism--Italy--Florence--History.

Humanism.

Renaissance--Italy--Florence.

Renaissance.

Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.

Florence (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the production of original works in Latin, he offers a new way of understanding how the humanist movement could incorporate so many who were illiterate in Latin, but who nonetheless were responsible for an intellectual and cultural paradigm shift. The book demonstrates the massive appeal of the humanist movement across socio-economic and political groups and argues that the movement became so successful and widespread because by the 1420s-30s the demands of common rituals began requiring humanist speeches. Over time, humanist learning became more valuable as social capital, which raised the status of the most learned humanists and helped disseminate humanist ideas beyond Florence.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89495-1

1-107-70323-9

1-107-70199-6

1-107-67085-3

1-107-69333-0

1-107-70401-4

1-107-59874-5

1-107-35825-6

OCLC:

867317422