A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and CultureMichael Hattaway This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.
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... Latin – occurs in the fifteenth century). In the Renaissance various Latin phrases – bonae litterae, litterae humaniores, etc. were used to describe the scholarly and educational field that we now call humanism. There has been much ...
... Latin – occurs in the fifteenth century). In the Renaissance various Latin phrases – bonae litterae, litterae humaniores, etc. were used to describe the scholarly and educational field that we now call humanism. There has been much ...
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... Latin (rather than the 'debased' medieval Latin of the schoolmen). Scholars have suggested that Italian humanism differed from its northern European manifestations in several important ways. The Italian movement is often characterized ...
... Latin (rather than the 'debased' medieval Latin of the schoolmen). Scholars have suggested that Italian humanism differed from its northern European manifestations in several important ways. The Italian movement is often characterized ...
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... Latin and Italian. Petrarch's Florentine follower, Giovanni Boccacio, and later such scholars as Collucio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini (who visited England) and Lorenzo Valla, continued to produce translations of ...
... Latin and Italian. Petrarch's Florentine follower, Giovanni Boccacio, and later such scholars as Collucio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini (who visited England) and Lorenzo Valla, continued to produce translations of ...
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... Latin. In Germany and the Netherlands, Desiderius Erasmus, emerged as the central figure of the northern renaissance and exerted a profound influence over the forms that humanism was to take, through publication and the foundation of ...
... Latin. In Germany and the Netherlands, Desiderius Erasmus, emerged as the central figure of the northern renaissance and exerted a profound influence over the forms that humanism was to take, through publication and the foundation of ...
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... Latin; but also, anxiety about an uncontrolled proliferation and profusion of language, especially ifit was based on promiscuous reading of pagan authors. Agricola's logic offers rules and aids for generating commonplace ideas and also ...
... Latin; but also, anxiety about an uncontrolled proliferation and profusion of language, especially ifit was based on promiscuous reading of pagan authors. Agricola's logic offers rules and aids for generating commonplace ideas and also ...
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