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The two Latin cultures and the foundation of Renaissance humanism in medieval Italy /

"This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid-thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated ana...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Witt, Ronald G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy: 1. The Carolingian conquest; 2. Italy and the Ottonian renaissance; 3. The golden age of traditional book culture and the birth of a new book culture (1000-1075)
  • Part II. The Birth of New Order: 4. The investiture struggle and the emergence of the communes
  • Part III. The Dominance of the Legal-Rhetorical Mentality: 5. The triumph of the legal culture; 6. The institutional structure of education, 1100-1180; 7. Literary creativity in the new age
  • Part IV. The French Renaissance of the Twelfth Century: 8. French literary and scholarly achievement in the twelfth century
  • Part V. Toward a Broader Intellectual Life: 9. The destabilization of the elites and the expanding market for education; 10. New knowledge and the tempering of the legal-rhetorical culture; 11. The development of the traditional disciplines and the resolution of the crisis of language; 12. The return to antiquity
  • Conclusion.