Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (New Approaches to European History)
Edition: Updated edition edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521547819
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Social History; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History: World; History; History - General History; Europe; Europe - General; Renaissance; History / Europe / General; Humanism
First sentence: Both the classical enthusiasms of Paduan lawyers and notaries and the literary works of Florentines like Brunetto Latini and Dante show that about 1300 the prosperous educated laymen in the Italian cities were groping their way towards a new culture distinct from both the chivalric culture of the medieval nobility and the scholastic culture of the clergy.