Beyond Reception: Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Beyond Reception

Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity

Edited by: Patrick Baker , Johannes Helmrath and Craig Kallendorf

Volume 62 in the series Transformationen der Antike

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638776

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Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.

Author / Editor information

P. Baker and J. Helmrath, Humobldt University, Berlin, Germany; C. Kallendorf, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.

Reviews

"Beyond Reception is an interesting volume that contains some outstanding contributions. [...] Despite the range of the topics covered, several of the chapters are in dialogue with each other and the theoretical views outlined by the editors in the introduction are articulated in various ways throughout the volume, offering both a review of the development of scholarship within Renaissance studies, as well as a prospectus of the shape of things to come."
Carl O’Brien in: BMCR 2019.10.31

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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Introduction Patrick Baker, Johannes Helmrath and Craig Kallendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Transformation: A Concept for the Study of Cultural Change Lutz Bergemann, Martin Dönike, Albert Schirrmeister, Georg Toepfer, Marco Walter and Julia Weitbrecht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
The Transformation of Attitudes towards Ancient Latin Authors and the Legacy of Lorenzo Valla Giancarlo Abbamonte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
The Greek Renaissance: Transfer, Allelopoiesis, or Both? Federica Ciccolella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
How Did Renaissance Rhetoric Transform the Classical Tradition? Peter Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Political-Assembly Speeches, German Diets, and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini Johannes Helmrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists James Hankins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
“Haec Domus Omnium Triumphorum”: Petrarch and the Humanist Transformation of the Ancient Triumph Roland Béhar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Tradition, Reception, Transformation: Allelopoiesis and the Creation of the Humanist Virgil Craig Kallendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Renaissance Humanism and the Transformations of Ancient Philosophy Jill Kraye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
The Effects of Authorial Strategies for Transforming Antiquity on the Place of the Renaissance in the Current Philosophical Canon Ada Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Wissenschaftler/innen, Insitute, Bibliotheken.
Pages
- Front matter: 4
- Main content: 210
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Line drawings: 6
Keywords: Reception studies; Classical tradition; Renaissance humanism

eBook

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9783110638776

Hardcover

Published: April 1, 2019
ISBN: 9783110635775