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... in the development of the humanists’ awareness of their cultural identity as a group. The essay argues that Bruni’s principal aim was not to distance himself from previous traditions, but rather to mark a distinction between two concurrent conceptions of humanism that prevailed in his own time. Through the Dialogi...

... to the ways in which these themes may also reflect our own preoccupations with social formation and individual agency, with cultural authorities and individual identity, with the possibility of differentiating vice from virtue amidst cultural and ethical pluralism, and with sustaining moral identity...

... coordination of both Greco-Roman mythology and history. Through her negotiation of humanist vocabulary and exemplarity she accrued prestige for herself and her daughter.13 Far from being a mere sign of cultural sophistication, such social prestige bore political implications, because French humanist...

... witness to the malleability of social identity and the vagaries of historiography, as I will argue it has great potential to become. Lescarbot’s project to render New France intelligible was ambitious and syncretic. He sought to capitalize on cultural assump- tions that the place of performance...

... as the “Reconquista.” But that was just the start: this overdetermined date also marks the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Columbus’s arrival in the New World.1 As if all this were not enough, 1492 is the year, too, in which the humanist Antonio de Nebrija published his Gramática castel- lana, the first...

... acquired humanist education by quoting from ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, and Italian, often on the theme of everlasting friendship. This essay looks closely at one album, owned by a German student attending law school at the University of Padua from...

... of the documents, records and monuments had vanished or, worse yet, been destroyed in the inter- ests of the Reformation. Those monuments that did survive were often dis- missed as products of “abbie-lubbers,” romances that failed to live up to the new humanistic standards of history.2 What disqualified...

... on the role of literary networks in shaping the theory and practice of Renaissance imitation and the construction of poetic identity. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Maffeo Vegio writing of light verse humanist poetics Renaissance reception of Virgil...

... the irony in his epigram: “Nusquam minus Roma cognoscitur quam Romae” [Nowhere is Rome less understood than at Rome]? 63 New insights into German culture were not to emerge among Italian humanists until, in the next generation, Poggio Bracciolini and Enea Silvio Piccolomini wrote their innovative works...

... fragments of the past, Elyot does not avoid uncomfortable reminiscences of the senseless destruction of past cultural objects. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Thomas Elyot Biblioteca Eliotae English Dictionary origin myth of Britain national identity...

... on theology, courtliness, gender, and print culture. In this essay, I will compare an early- and a late- Tudor estates debate, each focusing primarily on economics, secondarily on politics, and on religion almost not at all. The distance between them reveals that mid-Tudor England saw a seismic shift...

... by the bestowal of the laurel crown. At that moment, the Africa became inseparable from the promise of the humanist project. As Petrarch expounded on his cultural vision in his acceptance speech, the Coronation Oration, he loaded his unwritten text with ideal promises that he was arguably unable to fulfill...

... in print. Specifically, Whitney restructures humanist notions of reading-as-gathering around “huswifely” textile work by drawing on the rich semantic context of the word slip . Situating Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay in the material culture from which she drew her metaphors illuminates its relationship...

... recently emerged in scholarship, particularly the need to balance both breadth and depth of historical and cultural analysis. This volume considers how English institutional and sociocultural networks informed diplomatic practice in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and how diplomatic thought...

... Aers, Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writing, 1360 – 1430 (London: Routledge, 1988), 43, 36, and 44 respectively. 37 Ibid., 53, 67, 69. 38 C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Picciotto...

...].3 Confined within neither marriage nor a convent, Corinna is released from serving anyone but God, and like the soul that she dedicates to him, she is in the world, but not of it. But her sonnet intriguingly ends by praising the humanistic goals of “fama e gloria” that await her not only...

... of the material cultures, international markets, forma- tion of identities, and cultural and social codes of meaning in these periods. The study of fashion, clothing, dress, and costume, when aligned with these multiple social, cultural, political, and economic transformations during the long periods...

... of declamation.16 Prosopopoeia s ubiquity within early modern culture was not restricted to the male students of the humanist classroom, however; its foundational texts were translated into the vernacular and circulated in oral, print, and manuscript cultures, and they were imitated in a variety of popular...

..., make him a poet of the university, not of London or the commercial theater. More commonly, however, the university's culture of humanist verse could merge with the religious orientation of men intending to join the church. One result was sophisticated devotional poetry, joining classical forms...

...), to the Italian humanists, for whom “the material knowledge of old Rome” inspired and defined a new epoch of cultural rebirth, the Renaissance.3 Between them, Gibbon and Burckhardt create the most enduring modern narrative of the premodern era by establishing the borders that divide and define its three...