Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
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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…
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Key features
- An updated edition of Charles G. Nauert's classic account of the role of humanism in forging the intellectual culture of Renaissance Europe
- Now includes a section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibliography
- Highly readable and beautifully illustrated, this guide is essential reading for courses on Renaissance Europe
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511808388
- Series New Approaches to European History (37)
- Subjects Area Studies,European History after 1450,European Studies,History,History of Ideas and Intellectual History
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 29 May 2006
- ISBN: 9780521839099
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.625kg
- Contains: 12 b/w illus.
- Page extent: 266 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 29 May 2006
- ISBN: 9780521547819
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.36kg
- Contains: 12 b/w illus.
- Page extent: 266 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9780511808388
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