Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-SmithUniversity of Delaware Press, 2005 - 335 pàgines Dominic Baker-Smith has been a leading international authority on humanism for more than four decades, specializing in the works of Erasmus and Thomas More. The present collection of essays by colleagues throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States examines humanism in both its historic sixteenth-century meanings and applications and the humanist tradition in our own time, drawing on his work and that of scholars who have followed him. Contributors include Andrew Weiner, Elizabeth McCutcheon, and Germaine Warkentin. Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ton Hoenselaars is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utrecht. |
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Pàgina 11
... play , Sir Thomas More . This biographical history play about the life and death of Thomas More shows the major events of his career , focusing mainly on the period from 1517 to 1535. First , we see how Thomas More as Sheriff of London ...
... play , Sir Thomas More . This biographical history play about the life and death of Thomas More shows the major events of his career , focusing mainly on the period from 1517 to 1535. First , we see how Thomas More as Sheriff of London ...
Pàgina 13
... play— " Is this Sir Thomas More ? " — echoes through- out the challenging first chapter of Renaissance Self - Fashioning . Erasmus's skepticism and his preparedness to reconsider the subject position are also characteristic of the ...
... play— " Is this Sir Thomas More ? " — echoes through- out the challenging first chapter of Renaissance Self - Fashioning . Erasmus's skepticism and his preparedness to reconsider the subject position are also characteristic of the ...
Pàgina 17
... Play by Anthony Munday and Others , rev . Henry Chettle , Thomas Dekker , Thomas Heywood , and William Shakespeare , ed . Vittorio Gahrieli and Giorgio Melchiori , The Revels Plays ( Manchester , UK ; Manchester University Press , 1990 ) ...
... Play by Anthony Munday and Others , rev . Henry Chettle , Thomas Dekker , Thomas Heywood , and William Shakespeare , ed . Vittorio Gahrieli and Giorgio Melchiori , The Revels Plays ( Manchester , UK ; Manchester University Press , 1990 ) ...
Pàgina 32
... play , the meals they eat , the texts they hear , the farm they tend as apprentices , the houses they rotate . Nothing is ever private . Appropriating the Tudor commonplace that the polity can be likened to the family in its governance ...
... play , the meals they eat , the texts they hear , the farm they tend as apprentices , the houses they rotate . Nothing is ever private . Appropriating the Tudor commonplace that the polity can be likened to the family in its governance ...
Pàgina 39
... play or moral philosophy but of prescriptive analysis and common- wealth policy . " 19 Another mapmaker volunteered his cartographical Utopia , too : the distinguished Abraham Ortelius executed a copper engraving of Utopia in 1595-96 at ...
... play or moral philosophy but of prescriptive analysis and common- wealth policy . " 19 Another mapmaker volunteered his cartographical Utopia , too : the distinguished Abraham Ortelius executed a copper engraving of Utopia in 1595-96 at ...
Continguts
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Humanism or Humanisms? | 75 |
Teachers of Careful Reading | 90 |
Christian Humanism in John Hollands Court of Venus | 108 |
A Paradoxical Encomium by Hendrik Laurensz Spiegel 15491612 | 126 |
Manuscripts and Their Omissions and the Provenance of the Earliest Translation by Constantijn Huygens 1633 | 135 |
Sidneys Critique of Humanism in the New Arcadia | 154 |
Bacons Spenser | 209 |
The Second Earl of Leicester 15951677 and His Commonplace Books 163060 | 229 |
Making World War with Literature | 254 |
E W M M Robson Review | 269 |
The Harmonies of Thomas Whythorne and Rose Tremain | 290 |
Dominic BakerSmith A Bibliography | 311 |
Contributors | 318 |
Index | 323 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 203 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Pàgina 194 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Pàgina 203 - And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!
Pàgina 26 - ... io nacqui per lui; dove io non mi vergogno parlare con loro e domandarli della ragione delle loro azioni; e quelli per loro umanità mi rispondono; e non sento per quattro ore di tempo alcuna noia; sdimentico ogni affanno, non temo la povertà, non mi sbigottisce la morte: tutto mi trasferisco in loro.
Pàgina 62 - It is safer to strive for a good and pious will than for a capable and clear intellect. The object of the will, as it pleases the wise, is to be good; that of the intellect is truth. It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
Pàgina 26 - Ho un libro sotto, o Dante o Petrarca, o uno di questi poeti minori, come Tibullo, Ovidio e simili: leggo quelle loro amorose passioni e quelli loro amori; ricordomi de' mia; godomi un pezzo in questo pensiero.
Pàgina 203 - The effect, and it. Come to .my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor ! Enter MACBETH.
Pàgina 194 - Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Pàgina 275 - Greeks, with their chieftains Agamemnon and Menelaus, and tell me if you have not a more familiar insight into anger than finding in the schoolmen his genus and difference.