Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe

Name: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
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ISBN: 9780521547819

ISBN-10: 0521547814

ISBN-13: 9780521547819

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Charles G. Nauert, William Beik, T. C. W. Blanning, Brendan Simms

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In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe. He shows how, despite its elitist origins, humanism became a major force in the popular culture and fine arts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the powerful impact it had on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. He uses art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the narrative and concludes with an account of…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Charles G. Nauert is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His publications have dealt with various aspects of Renaissance humanism, mainly north of the Alps.



List of illustrations


Preface


Preface to the Second Edition


Introduction



The birth of humanist culture



Humanism becomes dominant



Humanism and Italian society



Crossing the Alps



Triumph and disaster



Humanism in the late Renaissance



The end of an age


Bibliographical essay


Index