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ISBN: | 9780226777535 0226777537 1283311356 9781283311359 9780226777511 0226777510
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has a.
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Other form: | Print version: Strier, Richard. Unrepentant Renaissance. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226777511
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Standard no.: | 9786613311351
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