Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn

ISBN-13: 9780199249879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 316 str.

Ann Moss

Opis

This study provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France and Germany. The book's main thesis is that the Latin language turn was not only concurrent with other aspects of change, but was a fundamental instrument in reconfiguring horizons of thought, reformulating paradigms of argument, and rearticulating the relationship between fiction and truth.

Recenzje

...the product of careful reflection on issues ... an exceptionally rich book, one that demands careful and reflective reading.

O autorze

Ann Moss is Professor of French and Head of the School of Modern European Languages at Durham University. Her publications include: Ovid in Renaissance France: a Survey of the Latin Editions of Ovid and Commentaries published before 1600 (London: The Warburg Institute, 1982) Poetry and Fable: Studies in Mythological Narrative in Sixteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Prees, 1984) Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance, Library of Renaisssance Humanism 5 (Signal Mountain, Tennessee: Summertown, 1998) Four chapters in Norton, G. P. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, iii: The Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Les Recueils de lieux communs: apprendre à penser à la Renaissance (Geneva: Droz, 2002)