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Informationen zum Autor Charles G. Nauert is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His major publications include several essays on pre-Reformation academic and religious controversies and The Age of Renaissance and Reformation (1977). Klappentext The revised edition of Charles Nauerts classic account includes a new section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibliography. It charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social! political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. It shows how! despite its elitist origins! humanism became a major force in the popular culture and fine arts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This comprehensive account of the development of humanistic culture will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance Europe. Zusammenfassung The updated edition of Charles Nauert's classic account includes a section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibliography! It charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social! political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The birth of humanist culture; 2. Humanism and Italian society; 3. Crossing the Alps; 4. Triumph and disaster; 5. Humanism and High-Renaissance culture; 6. Humanism in the late Renaissance; 7. The end of an age; Bibliography.
