The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance HumanismJill Kraye From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe. |
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NICHOLAS MANN | 1 |
REEVE | 20 |
Humanism in script and print in the fifteenth century | 47 |
4 | 56 |
5 | 79 |
Humanists and the Bible | 100 |
8 | 125 |
Philologists and philosophers | 142 |
9 | 156 |
Vernacular humanism in the sixteenth century | 189 |
The new science and the traditions of humanism | 203 |
Humanism and Italian literature | 224 |
Humanism and English literature in the fifteenth and sixteenth | 246 |
Humanism and seventeenthcentury English literature | 269 |
A guide to further reading in English | 294 |
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