- Description
- 1 online resource (355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated - in short, he attempts to reconstruct humanist identity. What emerges is a small, coherent community dedicated primarily not to political ideology, a philosophy of man, an educational ethos, or moral improvement, but rather to the pursuit of classical Latin eloquence. Grasping the significance this stylistic ideal had for the humanists is essential to understanding both their sense of themselves and the importance they and others attached to their movement. For eloquence was no mere aesthetic affair but rather appeared to them as the guarantor of civilisation itself.
- Series Statement
- Ideas in Context ; no. 14
- Uniform Title
- Ideas in Context ; no. 14.
- Subject
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2015).
- OCLC
- CR9781316282311
- Author
Baker, Patrick, author.
- Title
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror / Patrick Baker.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Ideas in Context ; no. 14
Ideas in Context ; no. 14.
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- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107111868