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Author:

Arnold, Jonathan, 1969-

Title:

The great humanists : an introduction / Jonathan Arnold.

Publisher:

New York :

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

vi, 327 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Humanism--Europe--History--16th century.
Humanists--16th century--Biography.
Humanism, Religious--History--16th century.
Christianity and religious humanism--History--16th century.
Humanists--Europe--Biography.
Humanismus.
Biographie.
Einführung.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-319) and index.

Contents:

Francesco Petrarch and the growth of the Renaissance -- Lorenzo Valla : the confrontational philologist -- Marsilio Ficino : the Florentine Platonist -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola : the Italian cabalist -- Rudolph Agricola : father of Northern European humanism -- Desiderius Erasmus : prince of humanists -- Johannes Reuchlin : the great German Hebraist -- Philip Melanchthon : the Lutheran humanist -- John Colet : the would-be reforming dean of St. Paul's -- Thomas More : 'The king's good servant, but God's first' -- The English Erasmians : Thomas Linacre, William Grocyn and Thomas Lupset -- Jacques Lefèvre D'Étaples : the great French humanist -- Juan Luis Vives : the Spanish Erasmian.

ISBN:

1848850824 (PB)
9781848850828 (PB)
1848850816 (HB)
9781848850811 (HB)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)695008684

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)