Beyond Reception: Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity 9783110638776, 9783110635775

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Beyond Reception: Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity
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Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renai

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This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and

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This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and

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Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illu

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Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography a

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Recent years have seen an increase of interest in classicism and the reception and survival of antiquity. Classical Rece

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For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illu

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Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as ‘valid’ for c

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This book posits that it is not possible for a civilization to maintain a human and humane culture without the assistanc

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Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poe

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