The Great Humanists

An Introduction

Jonathan Arnold (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2011
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-84885-082-8 (ISBN)

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Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought. Jonathan Arnold here explores the finest intellects of late-Renaissance Europe, providing an essential guide to the most important scholars, priests, theologians and philosophers of the period, now collectively known as the Christian Humanists. "The Great Humanists" provides an invaluable context to the philosophical, political and spiritual state of Europe on the eve of the Reformation through inter-related biographical sketches of Erasmus, Thomas More, Marsilio Ficino, Petrarch, Johann Reuchlin, Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and many others. The legacy of these thinkers is still relevant and widely-studied today, and this book will make invaluable reading for scholars and students of philosophy and early-modern European history.

Jonathan Arnold is the Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford. He holds a PhD from King's College, London and is the author of Dean John Colet of St Paul's: Humanism and Reform in Early Tudor England (I.B.Tauris, 2007).

Introduction

PART I: ITALY
1. Francesco Petrarch: The Father of Humanism
2. Lorenzo Valla: The Confrontational Philologist
3. Marsilio Ficino: The Platonic Theologian
4. Pico della Mirandola: The Italian Cabbalist

PART II: THE LOW COUNTRIES
5. Rudolph Agricola: Father of Northern European Humanism
6. Desiderius Erasmus: The Prince of Humanists

PART III: GERMANY
7. Johann Reuchlin: The Great German Hebraist
8. Phillip Melanchthon: The Lutheran Humanist

PART IV: ENGLAND
9. John Colet: The Would-be Reforming Dean of St. Paul’s
10. Thomas More: The King’s Good Servant, but God’s First
11. Thomas Linacre and the English Erasmians

PART V: FRANCE
12. Lefèvre d’Étaples: The Greatest French Humanist

PART VI: SPAIN
14. Juan Luis Vives : The Spanish Erasmian

APPENDICES
Appendix I: Other Notable Humanists
Appendix II: Glossary of Terms and other Notable Figures

Zusatzinfo	13 bw integrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	1-84885-082-4 / 1848850824
ISBN-13	978-1-84885-082-8 / 9781848850828
Zustand	Neuware