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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Renaissance humanism"”.
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Renaissance humanism in England, c.1490-c.1530
This dissertation explores humanism, the rediscovery of the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England. It does so with reference to texts, institutional settings, and networks both within and beyond England, and examines the activities of several …
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The administrator character from Renaissance humanism to modernism: an examination of the authorial tradition of using characterisation to represent the mundane processes of their contemporary soundings, and as means through which to engage in discourses of power
… even affirm them, from the period of the early Renaissance through to the beginning of the twentieth century. Through an 'archaeology' of such a character type, the thesis shows how administrator characters have been used historically to incorporate the author's impressions of new organisational …
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The content, context and influence of the work of Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540)
… educational and psychological theories of the renaissance philosopher Juan Luis Vives. A brief history of Vives' life is given as background information and, to place his work in context, the central concepts of Renaissance Humanism are explained. As Vives was influenced by Desiderius Erasmus …
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Intimacy with the natural world: A humanistic perspective
… normative concept. Since the evolution of humanism coincides with the three hermeneutical cycles (Renaissance humanism/frontier story: 1500--2000; Enlightenment humanism/Industrial Revolution: 1800--2000; Existentialism/Environmentalism: 1960--2000), I retain its major tenets, such as …
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The ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus of Johannes Legrense: a critical edition with translation, introduction and notes on the text
… of that spirit of enquiry which characterized Renaissance humanism, for he becomes the first to seek to interpret aspects of Greek music theory as described in the De Musica of the sixth century theorist and philosopher Boethius. Particularly significant here is Johannes' inspirational grasp of …
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The Influence of the “Final Cause Doctrine” on Anatomists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Concerning Selected Anatomical Structures of the Head and Neck.
… This had profound effects on the thinking of renaissance anatomists. I explore the final cause doctrine’s relationship with human head and neck anatomy according to Aristotle and Galen from antiquity and from the perspective of important anatomists of the renaissance period from the early …
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From fable to court: tracing the curation of indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case
… the recorded experience of Rudolf Marloth, in a Renaissance Humanist tradition, led to scientific experiments by the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) and commercial trials in an attempt to develop slimming drugs for commercialisation. A landmark royalty and benefit-sharing …
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Die Idee der Verbindung von Musik und Poesie im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts
… Pléiade, a French group of poets that led French Renaissance humanism to its climax in the mid 16th century. The French Renaissance humanists drew their inspiration from the classical antiquity. The Italian example played an important role in the confrontation with the antique ideal. The Italian …
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Creativity with Purest Energy: How Sir Thomas Wyatt Introduced Modern English Poetics
… been challenged on the European Continent by the renaissance which began there about a century ahead of England's.</p> <p>Transmitting and revising poetry from Italy, France and elsewhere, Wyatt introduced numerous poetic forms to England. Then, by experimenting with these new metrical forms and …
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Angelo Poliziano and the Renaissance invention of Greek-to-Latin verse translation, 1430-1589.
… and institutional breadth of the European Renaissance. The argument, broadly speaking, is that Renaissance Greek-to-Latin verse translation develops according to a norm of responsion: though not exclusive, the defining tendency is towards a strict identity – of words, sense, character, and …