Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Author: Ann Moss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.

Painted Prayers

Author: Roger S. Wieck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
This book features 107 of the finest examples of illuminated pages from medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. Roger Wieck's comprehensive text introduces the Book of Hours -- a "bestseller" for three hundred years -- to the general reader, discussing its iconography, the artists who illuminated this genre, and its role as a religious text in the lives of its owners. As a collection of both stirring words and inspiring images, the Book of Hours thus comprised a series of "painted prayers".

Religion and Politics in the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History

Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1541908066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Religion and politics during the Renaissance period could be complex topics for young learners to digest, don't you think? Well, with the right learning materials, they can actually be broken into bits and pieces for easy understanding. Take a look at this educational book. It has all the right elements to encourage active study. Grab a copy today.

The Beginning of the Renaissance - History Book for Kids 9-12 | Children's Renaissance Books

Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1541921658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
The Renaissance was a time of beautiful transformations - from art to science and everything else in between. Learn about the events that marked the beginning of the Renaissance. The great thing about this history book is that it has been rewritten to be age appropriate. It also comes with images for the eyes to feast on. Secure a copy of this book today!

The Family in Renaissance Florence

Author: Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
"I libri della famiglia has long been viewed by Italians as a classic of Italian literature. It displays a variety of styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The chief merit of the work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, and science. This translation is based upon the critical edition by Cecil Grayson, Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Oxford."--Jacket.

The Renaissance

Author: Paul F. Grendler
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780684312842
Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Alphabetically arranged articles cover people and events of the Renaissance, which began in Italy about 1350, broadened to embrace Europe in the mid to late fifteenth century, and ended about 1620.

The Renaissance: Science and Art Combined | Children's Renaissance History

Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1541908821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
During the Renaissance period, artists and scientists were considered as the highest individuals in society. Their work was much admired and they were fully supported by everyone. Let’s read some interesting information about the Renaissance, as well as the well-known personalities who lived during the period. You can see some of their amazing works in museums these days. Grab a copy of this book today!

Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation

Author: Aaron Wilkes
Publisher: Folens Limited
ISBN: 9781843034070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description

Renaissance Fashions

Author: Tom Tierney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486410388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Forty-five finely detailed, ready-to color illustrations depict an Italian peasant couple in wedding dress, children of a German royal family garbed in velvet, an English lord and lady in riding outfits, and more.

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy

Author: Elizabeth Storr Cohen
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Discover what life was like for ordinary people in Renaissance Italy through this unique resource that paints a full portrait of everday living.