Humanism and scholasticism in late medieval Germany / James H. Overfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overfield, James H., 1942- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5422

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism--History.

Humanism.

Scholasticism--Germany.

Scholasticism.

Germany--Intellectual life.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 344 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in the humanists' own arguments or the many modern chronicles. Eschewing neat but misleading dichotomies, the author describes the German humanists' critique of scholasticism from the 1450's to the 1510's and the scholastics' response. He traces the reception of humanists in Germany's universities, including their place in the academic corporation, the "opposition" they faced, and the pace of humanist curriculum reforms, and he places the famous Reuchlin affair and other intellectual feuds in the context of humanist-scholastic relations. After 1500 the calls of the early humanists for the reform of Latin grammar instruction and the teaching of the studia humanitatis gave way to more encompassing attacks on scholastic theology and the philosophical offerings of the arts course. The study draws on a wide variety of sources to describe both the gradual emergence of Renaissance humanism after 1450 and its rapid triumph after 1500.James H. Overfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Origi ally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

I - Late Scholasticism and the German University Environment

II - Humanists and Scholasticism to 1500: The Reform of the Trivium

III - The Response to Humanism, 1450-1500

IV - Humanists and Scholasticism after 1500: The Changing Critique

V - Academic Feuds and Pamphlet Wars, 1500-1510

VI - Humanism at the Universities, 1500-1515: The Prelude to Reform

VII - The Reuchlin Affair

VIII - The Transformation of German Scholasticism

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400819195

1400819199

9780691656755

0691656754

9780691197593

0691197598

9781400820337

1400820332

OCLC:

1086564889