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Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.

Humanism --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Classical tradition. --- Reception studies. --- Renaissance humanism.

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Les listes d’hommes et de femmes illustres ont envahi, sous des formes extrêmement variées, la production littéraire et iconographique de l’Europe des XIVe-XVIIe siècles. Par-delà le constat de la fortune du genre et l’inventaire de ses avatars, cet ouvrage s’intéresse à la façon dont cette spectaculaire efflorescence de collections de noms, de biographies et d’images traduit un rapport spécifique à l’histoire et à la grandeur de l’humanité, qui caractérise l’imaginaire de la Renaissance. Les assemblées héroïques ainsi constituées, réarrangées, continuées jusqu’à l’âge présent, révèlent les évolutions des modèles de l’exemplarité individuelle et des pratiques commémoratives, fondées notamment sur l’instrumentalisation généalogique du passé et la mise en scène glorieuse de l’actualité. De Boccace à Montaigne et Charles Perrault, de l’Italie des seigneurs-condottières à l’Empire des Habsbourg, des humanistes dalmates aux ligueurs français, ce livre fait émerger certains des principaux motifs et vecteurs d’une vogue des grands hommes qui a prospéré à l’âge de l’humanisme et de l’imprimé, les stratégies politiques et identitaires qu’elle recelait, mais aussi son érosion progressive, au profit d’autres idéaux et au service d’autres enjeux.

History --- historiographie --- héros --- biographies --- commémoration --- portraits --- littérature médiévale --- humanisme --- Antiquité --- lumières --- historiography --- heros --- commemoration --- medieval literature --- renaissance humanism --- classical antiquity --- enlightenment

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Die Briefe des der Nachwelt vor allem als Philosoph und Platonübersetzer bekannt gebliebenen Florentiner Humanisten Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) dienten bisher in erster Linie als philosophiegeschichtliche und gelegentlich als biographische Quellen. Das vorliegende Buch liest die von Ficino noch zu Lebzeiten selbst herausgegebenen Briefe aus einem anderen Blickwinkel: als literarische Zeugnisse der Selbstdarstellung und eigenen Verortung in der Gesellschaft der Zeit. Nach einer ausführlichen Einführung in das Epistolarium als ganzes (Textgeschichte, Aufbau, Adressaten, Themen und Formen der enthaltenen Briefe) wendet sich die Studie exemplarisch ausgewählten Texten zu, die zumeist an prominente Adressaten wie Lorenzo de' Medici, Papst Sixtus IV. oder König Matthias von Ungarn gerichtet sind. Die Briefe werden übersetzt sowie eingehend erläutert und kommentiert; der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf den Rollen, die Ficino jeweils einnimmt, und den literarischen Strategien, derer er sich bedient. Typisch humanistische Kommunikationsstrategien verbinden sich dabei mit sehr spezifischen, Ficinos philosophischem Ideengebäude geschuldeten Elementen sowie interessanten historischen Bezügen.

Ficino, Marsilio, --- Briefliteratur. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Renaissance / humanism. --- Renaissance /Humanismus. --- Selbstdarstellung. --- epistolary literature. --- self-presentation. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио,

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"This study considers the way in which a poetic convention, the beloved to whom Renaissance amatory poetry was addessed, becomes influential political rhetoric, an instrument that both men and women used to shape and justify their claims to power. The author argues that Petrarchan poetic conventions were part of a social discourse that signaled anxiety concerning the rising place of women as intellectual interlocators, public figures, and patrons of the arts."--

Italian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- Influence. --- Petrarca, Franciscus, --- Petrarch, --- Petrarch, Francesco, --- Petrarcha, Franciscus, --- Petrark, --- Petrarka, Franchesko, --- Peṭrarḳa, Frants'esḳo, --- Pétrarque, --- Pétrarque --- Petrarch --- Petracco, Francesco --- Петрарка, Франческо, --- פטררקא, פרנצ׳סקו --- Petrarca, Francesco --- Literature --- Bembo --- Cicero --- Medusa --- Petrarchan sonnet --- Philosophy of love --- Renaissance humanism

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Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism

Renaissance. --- Intellectual life. --- Humanism. --- Renaissance --- Humanism --- History --- Ireland. --- Ireland --- Intellectual life --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Middle Ages --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Irish Free State --- Airlann --- Airurando --- Éire --- Irish Republic --- Irland --- Irlanda --- Irlande --- Irlanti --- Írország --- Poblacht na hÉireann --- Republic of Ireland --- Aristotelianism. --- Early modern. --- Empire. --- Enlightenment. --- Ethnicity. --- Race. --- Renaissance Humanism.