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Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe. He shows how, despite it...more
Paperback, 253 pages
Published
May 29th 2006
by Cambridge University Press
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A cultural history, obviously, by a specialist on northern Europe, written primarily for an undergraduate and general audience. A sound overview with an extremely useful and fairly comprehensive bibliographical essay at the end, although those seeking more detailed information on Italy will want to look elsewhere. Women don't appear much in the book, either, and they should.
The "New Approaches" series from Cambridge offers a lot of good titles, all of them written by re...more
The "New Approaches" series from Cambridge offers a lot of good titles, all of them written by re...more
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