Medieval and renaissance humanism : : rhetoric, representation, and reform / / edited by Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, 115
• Author: Centre for Classical, Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gersh, Stephen.; Roest, Bert, 1965-; Centre for Classical, Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 115.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Papers presented at a workshop held Oct. 19-21, 2000 at the Centre for Classical, Oriental, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies of the University of Groningen.

This volume discusses humanist aspects of medieval and Renaissance intellectual life and thought and of their appropriation by modern history and literature. It charts the humanist representations of the scholarly enterprise, the self-representation of the intellectual, the representation of individ...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest
• Eriugenian Developments of Ciceronian Topical Theory / Catherine Kaoanagh
• Orfeo ed Euridice, Philology and Mercury: Marriage as Metaphor for Relationship within Composition / Nancy van Deusen
• Elective Affinities: Love, Hatred, Playfulness and the self in Bernard and Abelard / Marinus Burcht Pranger
• Petrarchan Cartographic Writing / Theodore J. Cachey
• In Search of Fame: Self-Representation in Neo-Latin Humanism / Karl Enenkel
• Rhetoric of Innovation and Recourse to Tradition in Humanist Pedagogical Discourse / Bert Roest
• Humanist Values In The Early Modern Drama / Christel Meier-Staubach
• Why Did Alberti not Illustrate His De Pictura / Robert Zwijnenberg
• The Underworld of Chaucer's House of Fame: Virgil, Claudian, and Dante / John Kerr
• Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Pinder: The Impact of Humanism on the Career of a Nuremberg Town Physician around 1500 / Catrien Santing
• Jewish Intellectual Culture in Renaissance Context / Wout Jac. van Bekkum
• Pound's Humanistic Paradigm for the Rejuvenation of Modern Poetics / Charlotte Ward
• Bibliography / Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest
• About the Authors / Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest
• Index / Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest.