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In Our Image Likeness 2 Vol Set: Humanity & Divinity Italian Humanist Tho
Charles Trinkaus
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Description for In Our Image Likeness 2 Vol Set: Humanity & Divinity Italian Humanist Tho
Paperback. This two-volume set provides an analysis of early Italian humanist thought and the Christian Renaissance. The author argues that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the Church fathers than from the pagan ancients. Num Pages: 1024 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HP; HRAB; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1383.
"In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the church fathers than from the pagan ancients. . . . [This is] the most comprehensive and most important study of Italian humanism to appear in English. It is a mine of information, offering, among other things, detailed analyses of texts which have been ignored even by Italian scholars." —Library Journal
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1024
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268011734
SKU
V9780268011734
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Charles Trinkaus
Charles Trinkaus (1911–1999) was emeritus professor of history at the University of Michigan. He published a number of books, including The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness and The Scope of Renaissance Humanity.
Reviews for In Our Image Likeness 2 Vol Set: Humanity & Divinity Italian Humanist Tho
A substantial contribution to the continuing debate on the meaning and significance, even the very existence, of the Renaissance. . . . [T]his study does present an original, challenging interpretation of Renaissance thought, stemming from Trinkaus' complete command of Classical, Patristic, Scholastic, and Renaissance sources, and his familiarity with modern scholarly literature. "Charles Trinkhaus's In Our Image and Likeness set ... Read more