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Subject(s)

• Germany—Intellectual life—To 1500 [Browse]

Related name

• American Council of Learned Societies [Browse]

Series

• ACLS Humanities E-Book. [More in this series]
• Princeton Legacy Library ; 5422

Summary note

This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in the humanists' own arguments or the many modern chronicles. Eschewing neat but misleading dichotomies, the author describes the German humanists' critique of scholasticism from the 1450's to the 1510's and the scholastics' response. He traces the reception of humanists in Germany's universities, including their place in the academic corporation, the "opposition" they faced, and the pace of humanist curriculum reforms, and he places the famous Reuchlin affair and other intellectual feuds in the context of humanist-scholastic relations. After 1500 the calls of the early humanists for the reform of Latin grammar instruction and the teaching of the studia humanitatis gave way to more encompassing attacks on scholastic theology and the philosophical offerings of the arts course. The study draws on a wide variety of sources to describe both the gradual emergence of Renaissance humanism after 1450 and its rapid triumph after 1500.James H. Overfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Origi ally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)

Language note

English

Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Introduction
• I - Late Scholasticism and the German University Environment
• II - Humanists and Scholasticism to 1500: The Reform of the Trivium
• III - The Response to Humanism, 1450-1500
• IV - Humanists and Scholasticism after 1500: The Changing Critique
• V - Academic Feuds and Pamphlet Wars, 1500-1510
• VI - Humanism at the Universities, 1500-1515: The Prelude to Reform
• VII - The Reuchlin Affair
• VIII - The Transformation of German Scholasticism
• Index

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ISBN

• 1-4008-1919-9
• 0-691-65675-4
• 0-691-19759-8
• 1-4008-2033-2

OCLC

• 1086564889
• 1096523720

Doi

• 10.1515/9780691197593

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