Aspects of the Renaissance : a symposium : papers presented at a conference on the meaning of the Renaissance / edited by Archibald R. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Archibald R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas ; London, [England] : University of Texas Press, 1967.

Summary:

The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of intellect and will in all fields of human endeavor, but because it is diversely manifested in varying attitudes and forms at various times in the Western world, this vast era of Western European history has resisted definitive boundaries. To help clarify the problems inherent in the study of the Renaissance and its relationship to the preceding and subsequent historical periods, an international conference was held in Austin, Texas, in April, 1964, jointly sponsored by the South Central Renaissance Conference and The University of Texas. The ten papers here presented reveal how during the symposium leading scholars representing several academic disciplines shared their approaches and insights into the politics, economics, science, literature, art, music, philosophy, and religion of this complex era.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

General Introduction

PART ONE The Political Scene

The Rebirth of the Citizen on the Eve of the Renaissance Period

Popular Initiative in Renaissance France

PART TWO Old and New Traditions of Culture

Arms versus Letters: Towards a Definition of Spanish Fifteenth-Century Humanism

Patronage and Music in England1

PART THREE Arts and Letters

The Equestrian Monument from Cangrande della Scala to Peter the Great

Marguerite de Valois's Album of Verse

PART FOUR Renaissance and Reformation

The Third Generation of German Renaissance Humanists

Renaissance Science in Puritan New England

In Defense of Kepler

Concerning Clio, Concepts and Quantities

Notes on Contributors

Program Participants in the International Conference on the Meaning of the Renaissance

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 26, 2018).

ISBN:

1-4773-0097-X

OCLC:

1280943844