The Evolution of Western Thought: Volume 1, From the Ancient World to Late Antiquity - A New History, from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era

About the author

Christopher S. Celenza is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of History and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. A former Director of the American Academy in Rome, he has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Fulbright Foundation. He is a scholar whose wide interests and expertise span Renaissance thought, classical tradition, and intellectual history. His many books include Machiavelli: A Portrait (Harvard University Press, 2015), The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Celenza Christopher S.
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.01.2026
• EAN: 9781009699174
• ISBN: 978-1-009-69917-4
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, General & world history, Classical texts, Western Europe, General and world history, BCE to c 500 CE, Western Continental Europe, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, c 1 to c 500 CE, c 500 BCE to c 1BCE