The unrepentant Renaissance : from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton /

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Author / Creator:Strier, Richard.
Imprint:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 304 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11120184
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ISBN:9780226777535
0226777537
1283311356
9781283311359
9780226777511
0226777510
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Strier, Richard. Unrepentant Renaissance. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226777511
Standard no.:9786613311351