Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

List of contents

Introduction. A social conception of the humanist movement; 1. Learned connections and the humanist movement; 2. Literary and social humanists; 3. The social origins of the Florentine humanists; 4. The humanist demands of ritual; 5. Civic failure of the literary humanists or literary failure of the civic humanists?; 6. The rise of the social humanists, 1400-55; 7. Humanism as a means to social status, 1456-85.

About the author

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is an Assistant Professor of History at East Tennessee State University. His research focuses on the cultural and political history of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. His articles have appeared in Renaissance Studies and I Tatti Studies, among other journals. He has held fellowships from the Fulbright and Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundations, and has given invited lectures at the University of Oxford and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich.

Summary

This book offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years. Brian Jeffrey Maxson shows how this network of humanists enabled the launch of a cultural movement that established Florence as the pre-eminent center of learning in Italy, and that spread beyond Italy to the rest of Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Jeffrey Maxson, Brian Jeffrey (East Tennessee State Univer Maxson, Maxson Brian Jeffrey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107619647
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61964-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Medieval Western philosophy