Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
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Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by : Manfred Landfester
For the thinkers, artists and scholars of the Renaissance, antiquity was a major source of inspiration; it provided renewed modes of scholarship, led to corrections of received doctrine and proved a wellspring of new achievements in almost every area of human life. The 130 articles in this volume cover not only well known figures of the Renaissance such as Copernicus, Dürer, and Erasmus but also overall themes such as architecture, agriculture, economics, philosophy and philology as well as many others.
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For the thinkers, artists and scholars of the Renaissance, antiquity was a major source of inspiration; it provided renewed modes of scholarship, led to corrections of received doctrine and proved a wellspring of new achievements in almost every area of human life. The 130 articles in this volume cover not only well known figures of the Renaissance such as Copernicus, Dürer, and Erasmus but also overall themes such as architecture, agriculture, economics, philosophy and philology as well as many others.
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Reuchlin, Johannes
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A. Life and workThe German Humanist, philosopher, poet, jurist, diplomat, philologist and translator Johannes (or Johann) R. was born on January 29, 1455 at Pforzheim and died on June 30, 1522 at Stuttgart. His name was sometimes Hellenized as Kapnion (from
kapnós, 'smoke', playing on German
Rauch; also Capnion/Capnio). He was the son of Georg R., a monastery official. Through his sister, Elisabeth Reuter, he was a great-uncle of Philipp Melanchthon. After attending the
Lateinschule at Pforzheim, he studied (from 1470) grammar, philosophy and rhetoric at Freiburg. In…
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Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
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2016-11-24