Beyond Reception : Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity / Patrick Baker, Johannes Helmrath, Craig Kallendorf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Patrick, Editor.

Helmrath, Johannes, Editor.

Kallendorf, Craig, Editor.

Series:

Transformationen der Antike ; Band 62.

Transformationen der Antike ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism--History.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as 'transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Transformation: A Concept for the Study of Cultural Change

The Transformation of Attitudes towards Ancient Latin Authors and the Legacy of Lorenzo Valla

The Greek Renaissance: Transfer, Allelopoiesis, or Both?

How Did Renaissance Rhetoric Transform the Classical Tradition?

Political-Assembly Speeches, German Diets, and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini

The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists

"Haec Domus Omnium Triumphorum": Petrarch and the Humanist Transformation of the Ancient Triumph

Tradition, Reception, Transformation: Allelopoiesis and the Creation of the Humanist Virgil

Renaissance Humanism and the Transformations of Ancient Philosophy

The Effects of Authorial Strategies for Transforming Antiquity on the Place of the Renaissance in the Current Philosophical Canon

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110648164

3110648164

9783110638776

3110638770

OCLC:

1097979614