Dancing Around the Well - The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism

Dancing around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism examines the reception and reuse of classical sayings in vernacular and neo-Latin authors of the sixteenth century, especially through the mediation of Erasmus' Adages.

About the author

Eric MacPhail, Ph.D. (1988) Princeton University, is Professor of French at Indiana University. He has published widely on French Renaissance literature and on the classical tradition in Renaissance humanism, including The Sophistic Renaissance (Droz, 2011).

Product details

• Authors: Eric M MacPhail, Eric M. MacPhail
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9789004274396
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27439-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918