Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Band 136)

Celenza, Christopher and Kenneth Gouwens:

ISBN 10: 9004149074 / ISBN 13: 9789004149076

Published by BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2006

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411 Seiten Very good and clean copy from the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). This collection of original essays, gathered in honor of distinguished historian Ronald G. Witt, explores a range of issues of interest to scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Contributors include Robert Black, Melissa Bullard, Anthony D'Elia, Anthony Grafton, Paul Grendler, James Hankins, John Headley, John Monfasani, and Louise Rice. ISBN 9789004149076 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Band 136)
• Publisher: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004149074
• ISBN 13: 9789004149076
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 900 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance world here address specific topics reflecting some of the major themes that have woven their way through Ronald Witt’s intellectual cursus. While some essays offer fresh readings of canonical texts and explore previously unnoticed lines of filiation among them, others present “discoveries,” including a hitherto “lost” text and overlooked manuscripts that are here edited for the first time. Engagement with little-known material reflects another of Witt's distinguishing characteristics: a passion for original sources. The essays are gathered under three rubrics: (1) “Politics and the Revival of Antiquity”; (2) “Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy”; and (3) “Erudition and Innovation.”

Contributors include: Robert Black, Melissa Meriam Bullard, Christopher S. Celenza, Anthony F. D’Elia, Charles Fantazzi, Kenneth Gouwens, Anthony Grafton, Paul F. Grendler, James Hankins, John M. Headley, Mark Jurdjevic, Timothy Kircher, David A. Lines, Edward P. Mahoney, John Monfasani, Louise Rice, and T.C. Price Zimmerman.

Publications by Ronald G. Witt:

'In the Footsteps of the Ancients': The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni, ISBN: 978 90 04 11397 8 (Paperback: 978 0 391 04202 5)

About the Author

Kenneth Gouwens, Ph.D. (1991) in History and Humanities, Stanford University, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively on Renaissance humanism, including Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome (Brill, 1998).

Christopher S. Celenza, Ph.D. (1995) in History, Duke.