Medievalists.net » Cicero http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Revolution in Writing Styles during the Renaissance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/revolution-writing-styles-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/03/revolution-writing-styles-renaissance/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:43:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53015 Just as we have our faces, we each should have own writing style - this was the lesson that two leading Renaissance thinkers, Erasmus and Montaigne, gave to their contemporaries in 16th century Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/23/protecting-non-combatant-chivalry-codes-just-war-theory/feed/ 0 ‘Cast out into the hellish night’: Pagan Virtue and Pagan Poetics in Lorenzo Valla’s De voluptate http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:21:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42230 Valla wrote about Epicureanism before the Renaissance rediscovery of classical Epicurean texts. Poggio Bracciolini had not yet circulated his newly-discovered manuscript of first century Epicurean philosopher Lucretius’ De rerum natura, and Valla wrote without access to Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Philosophers, which discussed Epicurus’ teachings in greater detail.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/cast-out-into-the-hellish-night-pagan-virtue-and-pagan-poetics-in-lorenzo-vallas-de-voluptate/feed/ 0 Ciceronian rhetoric and the art of medieval French hagiography http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/02/ciceronian-rhetoric-and-the-art-of-medieval-french-hagiography/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:28:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35306 In the lives of the saints, it is clear that medieval hagiography reflects the statement, 'Antiquity has a twofold life in the Middle Ages: reception and transformation.'

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