The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Fromthefourteenthtotheseventeenthcentury,humanismplayedakeyroleinEuropeanculture.Beginningasamovementbasedontherecovery,interpretationandimitationofancientGreekandRomantextsandthearchaeologicalstudyofthephysicalremainsofantiquity,humanismturnedintoadynamicculturalprogramme,influencingalmosteveryfacetofRenaissanceintellectuallife.Thefourteenoriginalessaysinthisvolumedealwithallaspectsofthemovement,fromlanguagelearningtothedevelopmentofscience,fromtheeffectofhumanismonbiblicalstudytoitsinfluenceonart,fromitsItalianoriginstoitsmanifestationsintheliteratureofMore,SidneyandShakespeare.Adetailedbiographicalindex,andaguidetofurtherreading,areprovided.Overall,TheCambridgeCompaniontoRenaissanceHumanismprovidesacomprehensiveintroductiontoamajormovementinthecultureofearlymodernEurope.