Renaissance Essays: v. 9 (Library of the History of Ideas) - Softcover

The "Journal of the History of Ideas" has, over the years, published many articles on the Renaissance; this selection aims to provide a significant index of American scholarship in the field during the first 25 years of the journal's publication. Apart from the quality of the papers, the main criterion of selection has been their diversity. The editors aimed to present a broad cross-section of the intellectual history of the Renaissance, and have on the whole preferred comprehensive rather than monographic studies. Topics include the so-called problem of the Renaissance, the historical thought of the period, its social, moral and religious thought, humanism, philosophy and science, literature, the visual arts and music.