The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy - Couverture rigide

Witt, Ronald G.

 
9780521764742: The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521764742 ISBN 13 : 9780521764742
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated analysis of Latin writings produced in the area, examining not only religious, literary, and legal texts. Ronald G. Witt characterizes the changes reflected in these Latin writings as products of the interaction of thought with economic, political, and religious tendencies in Italian society as well as with intellectual influences coming from abroad. His research ultimately traces the early emergence of humanism in northern Italy in the mid thirteenth century to the precocious development of a lay intelligentsia in the region, whose participation in the culture of Latin writing fostered the beginnings of the intellectual movement which would eventually revolutionize all of Europe.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ronald G. Witt is currently William B. Hamilton Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, North Carolina. His most recent book, In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Italian Humanism 1250–1420 (2000), received the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Historical Society (2001), the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2001), and the Renaissance Society of America's Gordon Book Prize (2001). He is also the author of Humanism and Reform, (2001), Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works and Thought of Coluccio Salutati, (1331–1406) (1983), and Coluccio Salutati and his Public Letters (1976), as well as numerous articles.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521764742
ISBN 13 
9780521764742
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
618
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