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ISBN: | 9781107693333 1107693330 9781107358256 1107358256 9781107704015 1107704014 9781107043916 1107043913 9781107619647 1107619645 1139894951 9781139894951 1107703239 9781107703230 1107701996 9781107701991 1107670853 9781107670853 1107598745 9781107598744
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | "This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread and appeal of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between the individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Brian Jeffrey Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the production of original works in Latin, he offers a new way of understanding how the humanist movement could incorporate so many who were illiterate in Latin, but who nonetheless were responsible for an important intellectual and cultural paradigm shift. The book demonstrates the massive appeal of the humanist movement across socio-economic and political groups and argues that the movement became so successful and so widespread because by the 1420s-30s the demands of common rituals began requiring humanist speeches. Over time, deep humanist learning became more valuable in the marketplace of social capital, which raised the status of the most learned humanists and helped disseminate humanist ideas beyond Florence."--Publisher's description.
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Other form: | Print version: Maxson, Brian, 1978- Humanist world of Renaissance Florence. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781107043916
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