The Cambridge companion to Renaissance humanism /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010, 1996.
Description:xviii, 320 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8373857
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Other authors / contributors:Kraye, Jill.
ISBN:9780521436243 (pbk.)
0521436249 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The origins of humanism
  • 2. Classical scholarship
  • 3. Humanism in script and print in the fifteenth century
  • 4. The humanist reform of Latin and Latin teaching
  • 5. Humanist rhetoric and logic
  • 6. Humanists and the Bible
  • 7. Humanism and the origins of modern political thought
  • 8. Philologists and philosophers
  • 9. Artists and humanists
  • 10. Vernacular humanism in the sixteenth century
  • 11. The new science and the traditions of humanism
  • 12. Humanism and Italian literature
  • 13. Humanism and English literature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • 14. Humanism and seventeenth-century English literature
  • A guide to further reading in English
  • Biographical
  • Index