Charles G Nauert

Humanism and Renaissance Civilization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays collected in this volume represent many years of Professor Nauert's research and teaching on the history of Renaissance humanism, and more particularly on humanism north of the Alps. Much of the early work involved the significant but often-overlooked history of humanism at the University of Cologne, notoriously the most anti-humanist of the German universities. Later essays deal with the most famous humanist of the early sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and natural philosophy, a broad term covering many subjects now associated with natural science, is the topic of three of the pieces published here. Taken as a whole, the book presents a detailed study of intellectual development among European elites.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781138382626
• ISBN-10: 1138382620
• Artikelnr.: 55982819

Autorenporträt

Charles G. Nauert (1928-2013) was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Part I Scholastic Doctors and Humanist Challengers:
The clash of humanists and scholastics: an approach to pre-Reformation
controversies; Humanist infiltration into the academic world: some studies
of northern universities; Humanism as method: roots of conflict with the
scholastics; The humanist challenge to medieval German culture; Peter of
Ravenna and the 'obscure men' of Cologne: a case of pre-Reformation
controversy; Graf Hermann von Neuenahr and the limits of humanism in
Cologne; Humanists, scholastics, and the struggle to reform the University
of Cologne, 1523-1525. Part II Erasmus and the Conflict over Humanism: 'A
remarkably supercilious and touchy lot': Erasmus on the scholastic
theologians; 'The articular disease': Erasmus' charges that the theologians
have let the Church down. Part III 'Christian Humanism' in Renaissance
Culture: Rethinking 'Christian humanism'; Marguerite, Lefèvre d'Etaples,
and the growth of Christian humanism in France. Part IV Science in the
Renaissance: Natural and Occult: Humanists, scientists, and Pliny: changing
approaches to a classical author; Magic and skepticism in Agrippa's
thought; Agrippa in Renaissance Italy: the esoteric tradition. Part V
Directions in Renaissance Intellectual Life: The mind; Index.