Buch, Englisch, Band 241, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1180 g
In Honor of John Monfasani
Buch, Englisch, Band 241, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1180 g
Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
ISBN: 978-90-04-29447-9
Verlag: Brill
Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters is a volume dedicated to John Monfasani, renowned scholar of Latin and Greek rhetoric and philosophy. These essays range from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, in genre from learned notes to editiones principes, and in discipline from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction to Monfasani’s life and works, and a list of his opera open the volume.
Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sándor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward.
Zielgruppe
All interested in intellectual history, including the histories of philosophy, rhetoric, exegesis, political economy, classical reception, textual criticism, and cultural representation. Specialists in Renaissance Studies, Classics, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Government, History of Philosophy. Academic libraries, specialists, post-graduate students.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
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INTRODUCTION
Patrick Nold & Alison Frazier
PUBLICATIONS 1969-2014
John Monfasani
PART I: NOTES.
CHAPTER I.
Concetta Bianca
Byzantines at Rome in the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER II.
Thomas Izbicki
Badgering for Books: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni’s Translation of Aristotle’s Politics
CHAPTER III.
David Rundle
Heralds of Antiquity: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the British “Thucydides”
CHAPTER IV.
Christopher S. Celenza
Petrus Crinitus and Ancient Latin Poetry
CHAPTER V.
Peter Mack
Erasmus’s Use of George Trapezuntius of Crete in De conscribendis epistolis
PART II: ESSAYS
CHAPTER VI.
David Jacoby
The Byzantine Social Elite and the Market Economy, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER VII.
James Hankins
George of Trebizond, Renaissance Libertarian?
CHAPTER VIII.
Robert Black
The School of San Lorenzo, Niccolò Machiavelli, Paolo Sassi, and Benedetto Riccardini
CHAPTER IX.
Sándor Bene
Renaissance Sources in Medieval Mirrors for Princes (Petrarch and Andreas Pannonius)
Appendices
CHAPTER X.
Michael Allen
Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Proclus and most notably of Proclus’s In Parmenidem
CHAPTER XI.
Lodi Nauta
De-essentializing the World: Valla, Agricola, Vives, and Nizolio on Universals and Topics
CHAPTER XII.
April Shelford
Pierre-Daniel Huet and Josephus’ Testimonium Flavianum
PART III: EXTENDED DISCUSSIONS & EDITIONS
CHAPTER XIII.
John A. Demetracopoulos
Christian Scepticism: The Reception of Xenophanes’ in Heathen and Christian Antiquity and its Sequel in Byzantine Thought
Appendix
CHAPTER XIV.
David Rutherford
Lactantius Philosophus? Reading, Misreading, and Exploiting Lactantius from Antiquity to the Early Renaissance
CHAPTER XV.
Martin Hinterberger and Chris Schabel
Andreas Chrysoberges’ Dialogue against Mark Eugenikos
Introduction
Edition
CHAPTER XVI.
Brian Copenhaver and Thomas Ward
Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier
Introduction
Edition
Index
