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Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as 'transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.
Humanism --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Classical tradition. --- Reception studies. --- Renaissance humanism.
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Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of “critical posthumanisms” in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but rather by revisiting and interrogating them. What if today’s “critical posthumanisms,” even as they distance themselves from the iconic representations of the Renaissance, are in fact moving ever closer to ideas in works from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century? What if “the human” is at once embedded and embodied in, evolving with, and de-centered amid a weird tangle of animals, environments, and vital materiality? Seeking those patterns of thought and practice, contributors to this collection focus on moments wherein Renaissance humanism looks retrospectively like an uncanny “contemporary”—and ally—of twenty-first-century critical posthumanism.
Humanism. --- Renaissance. --- Humanities. --- Post-postmodernism. --- Animal Studies. --- Ecology. --- Human. --- Milton. --- Posthumanism. --- Rabelais. --- Renaissance Humanism. --- Shakespeare. --- Titian.
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Les listes d’hommes et de femmes illustres ont envahi, sous des formes extrêmement variées, la production littéraire et iconographique de l’Europe des XIVe-XVIIe siècles. Par-delà le constat de la fortune du genre et l’inventaire de ses avatars, cet ouvrage s’intéresse à la façon dont cette spectaculaire efflorescence de collections de noms, de biographies et d’images traduit un rapport spécifique à l’histoire et à la grandeur de l’humanité, qui caractérise l’imaginaire de la Renaissance. Les assemblées héroïques ainsi constituées, réarrangées, continuées jusqu’à l’âge présent, révèlent les évolutions des modèles de l’exemplarité individuelle et des pratiques commémoratives, fondées notamment sur l’instrumentalisation généalogique du passé et la mise en scène glorieuse de l’actualité. De Boccace à Montaigne et Charles Perrault, de l’Italie des seigneurs-condottières à l’Empire des Habsbourg, des humanistes dalmates aux ligueurs français, ce livre fait émerger certains des principaux motifs et vecteurs d’une vogue des grands hommes qui a prospéré à l’âge de l’humanisme et de l’imprimé, les stratégies politiques et identitaires qu’elle recelait, mais aussi son érosion progressive, au profit d’autres idéaux et au service d’autres enjeux.
History --- historiographie --- héros --- biographies --- commémoration --- portraits --- littérature médiévale --- humanisme --- Antiquité --- lumières --- historiography --- heros --- commemoration --- medieval literature --- renaissance humanism --- classical antiquity --- enlightenment
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This comprehensive biography of John Vitez, an instrumental figure of the Early Renaissance, presents a complex picture of cultural, political, and religious developments in Central Europe through one man’s life. Drawing on close study of Vitez’s writings and his various political and artistic networks of influence, Tomislav Matić demonstrates the wide scope of this church leader’s involvement in late medieval Central Europe. Not only were Vitez’s writings a catalyst for the introduction of humanism across the region, he was a patron of the arts, an avid astrologer, a master diplomat, and even a kingmaker, thus central to both political and cultural developments.
Bishops --- Humanists --- HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Early Renaissance, Humanism, Hungary, Central Europe, Catholic Church, diplomacy. --- Scholars --- Archbishops --- Clergy --- Major orders --- Metropolitans --- Orders, Major --- Chaplains, Bishops' --- Episcopacy
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Die Briefe des der Nachwelt vor allem als Philosoph und Platonübersetzer bekannt gebliebenen Florentiner Humanisten Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) dienten bisher in erster Linie als philosophiegeschichtliche und gelegentlich als biographische Quellen. Das vorliegende Buch liest die von Ficino noch zu Lebzeiten selbst herausgegebenen Briefe aus einem anderen Blickwinkel: als literarische Zeugnisse der Selbstdarstellung und eigenen Verortung in der Gesellschaft der Zeit. Nach einer ausführlichen Einführung in das Epistolarium als ganzes (Textgeschichte, Aufbau, Adressaten, Themen und Formen der enthaltenen Briefe) wendet sich die Studie exemplarisch ausgewählten Texten zu, die zumeist an prominente Adressaten wie Lorenzo de' Medici, Papst Sixtus IV. oder König Matthias von Ungarn gerichtet sind. Die Briefe werden übersetzt sowie eingehend erläutert und kommentiert; der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf den Rollen, die Ficino jeweils einnimmt, und den literarischen Strategien, derer er sich bedient. Typisch humanistische Kommunikationsstrategien verbinden sich dabei mit sehr spezifischen, Ficinos philosophischem Ideengebäude geschuldeten Elementen sowie interessanten historischen Bezügen.
Ficino, Marsilio, --- Briefliteratur. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Renaissance / humanism. --- Renaissance /Humanismus. --- Selbstdarstellung. --- epistolary literature. --- self-presentation. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио,
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The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.
Renaissance --- Europe --- Kings and rulers --- Historiography --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- Humanists --- Rois et souverains --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- Humanistes --- History --- Histoire --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Historiographie --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- Congrès --- History. --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Renaissance humanism. --- biography. --- epic. --- historiography.
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"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--
Italian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Influence. --- Petrarca, Franciscus, --- Petrarch, --- Petrarch, Francesco, --- Petrarcha, Franciscus, --- Petrark, --- Petrarka, Franchesko, --- Peṭrarḳa, Frants'esḳo, --- Pétrarque, --- Pétrarque --- Petrarch --- Petracco, Francesco --- Петрарка, Франческо, --- פטררקא, פרנצ׳סקו --- Petrarca, Francesco --- Literature --- Bembo --- Cicero --- Medusa --- Petrarchan sonnet --- Philosophy of love --- Renaissance humanism
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The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known.As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable st
Cosmography --- Science --- Cosmology --- History. --- Historiography. --- America --- Spain --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish. --- History --- Historiography --- discovery, exploration, expansion, new world, europe, scientific knowledge, empire, governance, administration, cosmography, epistemology, nature, history, philosophy, spain, renaissance, humanism, ptolemy, navigation, mathematical rationalism, tordesillas question, alonso de santa cruz, juan herrera, pilots, maps, cartography, lopez velasco, lunar eclipse, bautista gesio, patronage, nonfiction.
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The book (‘The Cyclorama of the Slavic Word (A Test of Renaissance Humanism through a Cross-Section of the Complete Works of Primož Trubar and Maximus the Greek)’) presents a detailed cultural and historical analysis of the problems associated with the attempts to link Western and Eastern Christianity since the first century of Christianization onward, with special attention being paid to the importance of the Slavic presence in European history, including questions regarding the role of individual contributions (biographical and historical overviews) to the spiritual history of the Christian East and West. This book uses juxtaposition to present the work, creativity and views of two key figures in Slovenia and Russia, Primož Trubar and Maximus the Greek (St. Maxim the Greek). The said Slavic authors, who also wrote in Latin, German and Greek, but consciously chose Slavic for very specific reasons (Primož Trubar used it as his mother language and Maximus the Greek as a language of salvation), are studied on the basis of primary archival sources, with special regard to manuscripts (of Maximus the Greek) and to early printing (of Primož Trubar) in the sixteenth century. In addition, Neža Zajc also critically analyzes the Renaissance period and presents the option of viewing it from a different perspective: the hypotheses to date that were based on secondary literature have proven to be insufficiently explanatory or proved unsatisfactory. Knjiga, osnovana ne kot primerjava, temveč kot sopostavitev na način vzajemne zgolj osvetlitve dveh besedilnih opusov dveh pisateljev v (staro) slovenskem (Primoža Trubarja) in (staro) ruskem jeziku (Maksima Greka) XVI. stoletja, ponuja osamosvojeno od preteklih opredelitev (a ne od zgodovinskega obdobja) razumevanje njunega doprinosa k duhovni zgodovini človeštva, pa tudi nekoliko drugačen vpogled v obdobje, ki se je zapisalo v zgodovino pod naziv t. i. renesanse.
Russia --- History of ideas --- 16th century --- comparative studies --- cultural history --- exegesis --- Grek, Maksim --- Proto-Russian language --- Renaissance humanism --- Russian culture --- Slovene language --- Slovenian culture --- spiritual formation --- spirituality --- Trubar, Primož --- 16. st. --- duhovni nazori --- duhovnost --- eksegeza --- kulturna zgodovina --- primerjalne študije --- renesančni humanizem --- ruska kultura --- slovenščina --- slovenska kultura --- stara ruščina
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The book (‘The Cyclorama of the Slavic Word (A Test of Renaissance Humanism through a Cross-Section of the Complete Works of Primož Trubar and Maximus the Greek)’) presents a detailed cultural and historical analysis of the problems associated with the attempts to link Western and Eastern Christianity since the first century of Christianization onward, with special attention being paid to the importance of the Slavic presence in European history, including questions regarding the role of individual contributions (biographical and historical overviews) to the spiritual history of the Christian East and West. This book uses juxtaposition to present the work, creativity and views of two key figures in Slovenia and Russia, Primož Trubar and Maximus the Greek (St. Maxim the Greek). The said Slavic authors, who also wrote in Latin, German and Greek, but consciously chose Slavic for very specific reasons (Primož Trubar used it as his mother language and Maximus the Greek as a language of salvation), are studied on the basis of primary archival sources, with special regard to manuscripts (of Maximus the Greek) and to early printing (of Primož Trubar) in the sixteenth century. In addition, Neža Zajc also critically analyzes the Renaissance period and presents the option of viewing it from a different perspective: the hypotheses to date that were based on secondary literature have proven to be insufficiently explanatory or proved unsatisfactory. Knjiga, osnovana ne kot primerjava, temveč kot sopostavitev na način vzajemne zgolj osvetlitve dveh besedilnih opusov dveh pisateljev v (staro) slovenskem (Primoža Trubarja) in (staro) ruskem jeziku (Maksima Greka) XVI. stoletja, ponuja osamosvojeno od preteklih opredelitev (a ne od zgodovinskega obdobja) razumevanje njunega doprinosa k duhovni zgodovini človeštva, pa tudi nekoliko drugačen vpogled v obdobje, ki se je zapisalo v zgodovino pod naziv t. i. renesanse.
Russia --- History of ideas --- 16th century --- comparative studies --- cultural history --- exegesis --- Grek, Maksim --- Proto-Russian language --- Renaissance humanism --- Russian culture --- Slovene language --- Slovenian culture --- spiritual formation --- spirituality --- Trubar, Primož --- 16. st. --- duhovni nazori --- duhovnost --- eksegeza --- kulturna zgodovina --- primerjalne študije --- renesančni humanizem --- ruska kultura --- slovenščina --- slovenska kultura --- stara ruščina
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