The great humanists : an introduction / by Jonathan Arnold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, Jonathan, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and religious humanism--History--16th century.

Christianity and religious humanism.

Humanists--Europe--History--16th century.

Humanists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians and philosophers of the period, now collectively known as the Christian Humanists. "The Great Humanists" provides an invaluable context to the philosophical, political and spiritual state of Europe on the eve of the Reformation through inter-related biographical sketches of Erasmus, Thomas More, Marsilio Ficino, Petrarch, Johann Reuchlin, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and many others. The legacy of these thinkers is still relevant and widely-studied today, and this book will make invaluable reading for scholars and students of philosophy and early-modern European history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

PART I: ITALY

1. Francesco Petrarch: The Father of Humanism

2. Lorenzo Valla: The Confrontational Philologist

3. Marsilio Ficino: The Platonic Theologian 4. Pico della Mirandola: The Italian Cabbalist

PART II: THE LOW COUNTRIES

5. Rudolph Agricola: Father of Northern European Humanism

6. Desiderius Erasmus: The Prince of Humanists

PART III: GERMANY

7. Johann Reuchlin: The Great German Hebraist

8. Phillip Melanchthon: The Lutheran Humanist

PART IV: ENGLAND

9. John Colet: The Would-be Reforming Dean of St. Paul's

10. Thomas More: The King's Good Servant, but God's First

11. Thomas Linacre and the English Erasmians

PART V: FRANCE

12. Lefèvre d'Étaples: The Greatest French Humanist

PART VI: SPAIN 14. Juan Luis Vives : The Spanish Erasmian

APPENDICES

Appendix I: Other Notable Humanists

Appendix II: Glossary of Terms and other Notable Figures.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613595300

9780755622603

075562260X

9780857720801

0857720805

9781280512162

1280512164

9780857732231

0857732234

OCLC:

793166609