Renaissance and Reformation: The Intellectual Genesis

by Anthony Levi

Book Overview

This book presents a revisionist examination of the development of European intellectual culture between the high middle ages and 1550. It draws particular attention to the roles of Marsilio Ficino and Erasmus and analyzes major aspects of the work of Aquinas, Soctus, and Ockham, before moving on to Petrarch, Valla, Pico della Mirandola, the devotio moderna, More, Luther, Calvin, and their contemporaries. It establishes radically new perspectives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300103468
• ISBN13: 9780300103465
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 483 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"