Medievalists.net » Humanism 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 Medieval Books for Christmas http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/15/medieval-books-christmas/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/15/medieval-books-christmas/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:16:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54810 It's that time of year again - the mad scramble for the perfect Christmas gift for the historian, nerd, avid reader on your list. Here are a few suggestions for you - new releases for December and January!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/12/15/medieval-books-christmas/feed/ 0 Flee the loathsome shadow: Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and the Medici in Florence http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:30:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54007 This article examines the changing political landscape of Medicean Florence, from Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) to his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492), through the letters of the celebrated neo-Platonist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/flee-loathsome-shadow-marsilio-ficino-1433-99-medici-florence/feed/ 0 King’s sister, queen of dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her evangelical network http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/kings-sister-queen-dissent-marguerite-navarre-1492-1549-evangelical-network/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/kings-sister-queen-dissent-marguerite-navarre-1492-1549-evangelical-network/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:10:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53957 This study reconstructs the previously unknown history of the most important dissident group within France before the French Reformed Church formed during the 1550s.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/07/kings-sister-queen-dissent-marguerite-navarre-1492-1549-evangelical-network/feed/ 0 Does a Reformation End?: Rethinking Religious Simulation in Sixteenth-Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:08:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53493 A paper examining the Italian Reformation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/feed/ 0 Medieval Perspectives: Jean de Waurin and His Perception of the Turks in Anatolia in the Late Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/medieval-perspectives-jean-de-waurin-perception-turks-anatolia-late-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/medieval-perspectives-jean-de-waurin-perception-turks-anatolia-late-middle-ages/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:54:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52296 This paper discusses the reasons Wavrin wrote his account of the crusade of Varna and Walerin de Wavrin’s expedition into the Balkans, which was later published within his history of Britain and how he perceived and accordingly presented the Turks to the renaissance readers.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/medieval-perspectives-jean-de-waurin-perception-turks-anatolia-late-middle-ages/feed/ 0 The Influence of Humanist Culture on Sephardi Scholars Active in Medieval Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/17/influence-humanist-culture-sephardi-scholars-active-medieval-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/17/influence-humanist-culture-sephardi-scholars-active-medieval-italy/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:22:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50503 This talk will set the context by introducing three generations of the Iberian Shohams, a late 14th-mid-15th century Sephardic family moving from Sicily to Apulia and Calabria.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/17/influence-humanist-culture-sephardi-scholars-active-medieval-italy/feed/ 0 Men Who Talk about Love in Late Medieval Spain: Hugo de Urriés and Egalitarian Married Life http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/men-who-talk-about-love-in-late-medieval-spain-hugo-de-urries-and-egalitarian-married-life/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/men-who-talk-about-love-in-late-medieval-spain-hugo-de-urries-and-egalitarian-married-life/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:05:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47563 In the last third of the fifteenth century, Hugo de Urriés’s work can offer the modern reader a very rare and informative perspective from the points of view of social history and history of ideas.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/13/men-who-talk-about-love-in-late-medieval-spain-hugo-de-urries-and-egalitarian-married-life/feed/ 0 “The Taint of a Fault”: Purgatory, Relativism and Humanism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/21/the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/21/the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:05:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45072 “The Taint of a Fault”: Purgatory, Relativism and Humanism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Bill Phillips Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, No. 17 (2004) Abstract Far from being a poem about the chivalric code, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is essentially concerned with religion. The Romance genre is used to reveal the shortcomings […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/21/the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/feed/ 0 The Idea of the Renaissance, Revisited http://www.medievalists.net/2008/12/12/the-idea-of-the-renaissance-revisited/ http://www.medievalists.net/2008/12/12/the-idea-of-the-renaissance-revisited/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:54:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=1404 The idea of the Renaissance as a historical period was first formulated by Jacob
Burckhardt in his book Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860). In this lecture I want to review some of the many directions taken by Renaissance studies since then, and to make some suggestions for future work.

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