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The two latin cultures and the foundation of renaissance humanism in medieval Italy /
"This book traces the intellectual life of the Kingdom of Italy, the area in which humanism began in the mid-thirteenth century, a century or more before exerting its influence on the rest of Europe. Covering a period of over four and a half centuries, this study offers the first integrated ana...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=F8KXnDTwsZYC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=he+two+Latin+cultures+and+the+foundation+of+Renaissance+humanism+in+medieval+Italy+/&source=bl&ots=bcPct3pHXf&sig=DGotO_7EFcvtDMMisyyNWjjxAwI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kD0aVeqgGs69uASe0oHIDg&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=he%20two%20Latin%20cultures%20and%20the%20foundation%20of%20Renaissance%20humanism%20in%20medieval%20Italy%20%2F&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy: 1. The Carolingian conquest; 2. Italy and the Ottonian renaissance; 3. The golden age of traditional book culture and the birth of a new book culture (1000-1075); Part II. The Birth of New Order: 4. The investiture conflict and the emergence of the communes; Part III. The Dominance of the Legal-Rhetorical Mentality: 5. The triumph of the legal culture; 6. The institutional structure of education, 1100-1180; 7. Literary creativity in an age of intensifying legal-rhetorical culture; Part IV. The French Renaissance of the Twelfth Century: 8. French literary and scholarly achievement in the twelfth century; Part V. Toward a Broader Intellectual Life: 9. The destabilization of the elites and the expanding market for education; 10. New knowledge and the tempering of the legal-rhetorical culture; 11. The development of the traditional disciplines and the resolution of the crisis of language; 12. The return to antiquity; Conclusion; Appendix.