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Petrarch’s Africa I-IV: A Translation and Commentary

Medievalists.net — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 16:28:03 +0000

English-speaking scholars have neglected Francesco Petrarch’s self-proclaimed masterwork, the Africa.

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Guilt and Creativity in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:50:55 +0000

I argue that as Chaucer develops his own expansive, questioning poetics in The House of Fame and The Canterbury Tales, he problematises the principle of allegory on which the legitimacy of literary discourse was primarily based in medieval culture and the final fragments of The Canterbury Tales see Chaucer struggling, increasingly, to reconcile the boldness and independence of his poetic vision with the demands of his faith.

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Avignon vs. Rome: Dante, Petrarch, Catherine of Siena

Medievalists.net — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:22:12 +0000

In the fourteenth century the image of ancient Rome as Babylon was transformed into the positive idea of Rome as both a Christian and a classical ideal.

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Why the Middle Ages are called the Dark Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:56:43 +0000

How did the term 'Dark Ages' become synonymous with the Middle Ages, and why do we still refer to it like that?

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Past/Present: Leonardo Bruni’s History of Florence

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 01:59:53 +0000

Past/Present: Leonardo Bruni’s History of Florence Giuseppe Bisaccia Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 21, No 1 (1985) Abstract The importance of historical consciousness in the Renaissance is a fact generally recognized by scholars of the period. From Petrarch on, it is possible to discern a growing awareness of the past “men became more and more conscious that […]

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The Greek Renaissance in Italy

Medievalists.net — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:02:00 +0000

For various reasons north Italy toward the end of the fourteenth century seemed peculiarly adapted to become the seat of another classical renaissance, though of one some what different in character and results from that which had already run its course.

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Petrarch’s “Conversion” on Mont Ventoux and the Patterns of Religious Experience

Medievalists.net — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:42:45 +0000

Petrarch’s letter, with its moments of meditation, its allegorical exploitation of the features in the physical ascent, and its program of classical allusions informing even the geographical descriptions, is much more than a travel narrative.

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The Publisher Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, Female Readers, and the Debate about Women in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Medievalists.net — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:14:26 +0000

Drawing on recent work on the social history of the book and the politics of reading, this essay considers the texts under question as social products, whose meaning is not just determined by the author’s initial intentions, but is further shaped in the process of production, dissemination, and reception as a result of negotiation among several parties in a given historical moment.

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Foundation of the Renaissance: The Civic Culture of Early Italian Humanism

Medievalists.net — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:16:56 +0000

That Francesco Petrarch was the first Renaissance humanist, that he was the first modern man, and that he ushered in a new period of European history known as the Renaissance is the boilerplate of general survey courses as they move from the middle ages to the modern world.

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Some Educational Aspects in England in the 16th Century

Medievalists.net — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:31:59 +0000

Some Educational Aspects in England in the 16th Century Pacheco Lucas, Margarita (University of Extremadura – Cáceres) Proceedings of the II Conference of SEDERI (1992) It is well known that the term Renaissance refers to a new age in the history of western civilization supposed to separate the Middle Ages and the Modern times or, […]

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