Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
by Jr.. Charles G. Nauert
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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 its elitist origins, humanism became a major force in the popular culture and fine arts of the fifteenth and sixteenth show more centuries, and the powerful impact it had on both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. He uses art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the narrative and concludes with an account of the limitations of humanism at the end of the Renaissance. The revised edition includes a section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibliography. It will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance Europe. show lessTags
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Charles G. Nauert is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia
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- Canonical title
- Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
- Important places
- Europe
- Important events
- Renaissance
- Original language
- English
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.21 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Europe: Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Napolean Renaissance period 1453-1517
- LCC
- CB361 .N34 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization By period
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