Florilegium Historiale : Essays presented to Wallace K. Ferguson / J.G. Rowe, W.H. Stockdale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowe, J.G., Editor.

Stockdale, W.H., Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of essays marks the retirement from the University of Western Ontario of a distinguished and dedicated scholar, Wallace K. Ferguson. The volume consists of thirteen essays on various aspects of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The essays explore the political, historiographical, biographical, and aesthetic history of the period ranging from Dante to Henry VII. The contributors are former colleagues and students of Professor Ferguson, outstanding scholars from Britain, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Ferguson's publications and his scholarly labours have earned him a distinguished place in the historiography of the Renaissance. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1967 he received the Canada Council Medal. He is also historical co-editor of the Collected Works of Erasmus, in English, to be published by the University of Toronto Press. A fitting tribute to a distinguished scholar, this volume will stand as a lasting contribution to the study of the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It will interest all students of European history and culture as well as specialists in last Medieval and Renaissance studies.

Contents:

Wallace K. Ferguson.

The Italian view of Renaissance Italy, by D. Hay.

Petrarch: his inner struggles and the humanistic discovery of man's nature, by H. Baron.

A little-known letter of Erasmus and the date of his encounter with Reuchlin, by P.O. Kristeller.

De modis disputandi: the apologetic works of Erasmus, by M.P. Gilmore.

Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and the medieval Christian mystics, by E.F. Rice.

'By little and little': the early Tudor humanists on the development of man, by A.B. Ferguson.

Atropos-Mors: observations on a rare early humanist image, by M. Meiss.

A music book for Anne Boleyn, by E.E. Lowinsky.

The enlargement of the great council of Venice, by F.C. Lane.

Biondo, Sabellico, and the beginnings of Venetian official historiography, by F. Gilbert.

An essay on the quest for identity in the early Italian Renaissance, by M.B. Becker.

Notes on the word stato in Florence before Machiavelli, by N. Rubinstein.

Bonds, coercion, and fear: Henry VII and the peerage, by J.R. Lander.

Incitement to violence? by J.R. Hale.

The principal writings of Wallace K. Ferguson (p. 400-401).

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8366-4

OCLC:

1129191332