The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and the Reformation

by Erika Rummel

Book Overview

In the last half of the fifteenth century, the classic Platonic debate over the respective merits of rhetoric and philosophy was replayed in the debate between humanists and scholastics over philology and dialectic. The intense dispute between representatives of the two camps fueled many of the most important intellectual developments of the Renaissance and Reformation. Erika Rummel delves into the extensive primary sources of the times, bringing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674422511
• ISBN13: 9780674422513
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"