Brian Jeffrey Maxson (East Tennessee State University)

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years. Brian Jeffrey Maxson shows how this network of humanists enabled the launch of a cultural movement that established Florence as the pre-eminent center of learning in Italy, and that spread beyond Italy to the rest of Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781107619647
• ISBN-10: 1107619645
• Artikelnr.: 45571218

Autorenporträt

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is an Assistant Professor of History at East Tennessee State University. His research focuses on the cultural and political history of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. His articles have appeared in Renaissance Studies and I Tatti Studies, among other journals. He has held fellowships from the Fulbright and Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundations, and has given invited lectures at the University of Oxford and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A social conception of the humanist movement
1. Learned connections and the humanist movement
2. Literary and social humanists
3. The social origins of the Florentine humanists
4. The humanist demands of ritual
5. Civic failure of the literary humanists or literary failure of the civic humanists?
6. The rise of the social humanists, 1400-55
7. Humanism as a means to social status, 1456-85.