These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces

These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces

Based on the study of over 500 surviving manuscript school books, this comprehensive 2001 study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissanc

Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.

This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a se