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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2006
      23 February 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511999260
      9780521436243
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521430380
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 340 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500
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    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.

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    ‘This is an excellent publication, quite unique in its coverage, at a level accessible to students, of every aspect of the Renaissance … One of the most useful contextual volumes on the period of any kind.’

    David Hopkins - University of Bristol

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