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.

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.

Teaching the Middle Ages

Author: Robert V. Graybill
Publisher: Smart Publications
ISBN: 9780942912005
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Author: Scott Newstok
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227691
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--

Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation

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

Book Description

Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany

Author: Robert Black
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 871

Book Description
Scholarship on pre-university education in Italy before 1500 has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses; this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations.

The Age of Adventure

Author: Giorgio 1902- de Santillana
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781015066779
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Renaissance Portrait

Author: Patricia Lee Rubin
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394255
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.

Coming to England

Author: Floella Benjamin
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529049296
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
A picture book story about the triumph of hope, love, and determination, Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin: from Trinidad, to London as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords. When she was ten years old, Floella Benjamin, along with her older sister and two younger brothers, set sail from Trinidad to London, to be reunited with the rest of their family. Alone on a huge ship for two weeks, then tumbled into a cold and unfriendly London, coming to England wasn't at all what Floella had expected. Coming to England is both deeply personal and universally relevant – Floella's experiences of moving home and making friends will resonate with young children, who will be inspired by her trademark optimism and joy. This is a true story with a powerful message: that courage and determination can always overcome adversity.

The Flowering of the Renaissance

Author: Vincent Cronin
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446466566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelangelo remodelled and beautified, in the Venice of Titian and Tintoretto and Palladio, the Renaissance reached the height of its splendour, not only in the visual arts but also in the theatre, history, biography, epic poetry and music.