Aspects of the Renaissance / / ed. by Archibald R. Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Droz, Eugénie,; Hall, Michael G.,; Heaton, Herbert,; Janson, H. W.,; Major, J. Russell,; Rosen, Edward,; Russell, Peter,; Spitz, Lewis W.,; Ullmann, Walter,; Woodfill, Walter L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lewis, Archibald R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)

The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of intellect and will in all fields of human endeavor, but because it is diversely manifested in varying attitudes and forms at various times in the Western world, this vast era of Western European history has resisted definitive boundaries. To help clarify the problems inherent in the study of the Renaissance and its relationship to the preceding and subsequent historical periods, an international conference was held in Austin, Texas, in April, 1964, jointly sponsored by the South Central Renaissance Conference and The University of Texas. The ten papers here presented reveal how during the symposium leading scholars representing several academic disciplines shared their approaches and insights into the politics, economics, science, literature, art, music, philosophy, and religion of this complex era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- PART ONE The Political Scene -- The Rebirth of the Citizen on the Eve of the Renaissance Period -- Popular Initiative in Renaissance France -- PART TWO Old and New Traditions of Culture -- Arms versus Letters: Towards a Definition of Spanish Fifteenth-Century Humanism -- Patronage and Music in England1 -- PART THREE Arts and Letters -- The Equestrian Monument from Cangrande della Scala to Peter the Great -- Marguerite de Valois's Album of Verse -- PART FOUR Renaissance and Reformation -- The Third Generation of German Renaissance Humanists -- Renaissance Science in Puritan New England -- In Defense of Kepler -- Concerning Clio, Concepts and Quantities -- Notes on Contributors -- Program Participants in the International Conference on the Meaning of the Renaissance -- Index