Dancing around the well : : the circulation of commonplaces in Renaissance humanism / / Eric M. MacPhail.
This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 232 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
Volume 232. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Dancing Around the Well
- 1 In the Beginning there was Chaos
- 2 A Gem in its Setting
- 3 Words Frozen and Thawed
- 4 Rhapsody in Prose
- 5 The Mosaic of Speech
- 6 The Universal Library
- 7 In a Roman Mirror
- Conclusion: Emptying the Well
- Bibliography
- Index locorum communium
- Index rerum perutilium
- Index nominum illustrium
- Index Erasmianus.