Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Martin, Dennis | Copyright Catholic University of America Press Jan 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches. By Franz Posset. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, CVIII.] (Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill. 2005. Pp. xix, 196. $156.00 or euro109,00.)

This book consists of expanded versions of biographical articles published in several lextka and The American Benedictine Review. The six monks, all but one of them active along the upper Rhine or Danube basin, are (1) Conradus Leontorius [Konrad Toritz of Leonberg] (ca. ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches The Catholic Historical Review ; Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches. By Franz Posset. [Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, CVIII.] (Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill. 2005. Pp. xix, 196. $156.00 or euro109,00.) This book consists of expanded versions of biographical articles published in
	(book reviews) Renaissance Quarterly ; Humanist political opinion is not the sort of topic likely to spark much interest among the generation of young scholars working on the Reformation and Renaissance - those who work on documents more congenial to fashionable causes and modern sensibilities, as Stadtwald puts it in his conclusion,
	Letter from Berlin. (Editorial) Free Inquiry ; I recently attended, along with the editors of FREE INQUIRY, the first Congress of the European Humanist Federation, which convened in Berlin July 25 through 30, 1993. The Humanist Federation was established in 1991 to present the humanist outlook and defend the rights of unbelievers in Europe and
	Goethe's Reception of Ulrich von Hutten Goethe Yearbook ; TOWARD THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK of Dichtung und Wtthrheit, Goethe recalls his discovery of the works of the humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523DieWerke Ulrichs von Hutten kamen mir in die Hnde und es schien wundersam genug da in unsern neuern Tagen sich das hnliche, was dort
	The Witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien [*].(Critical Essay) Renaissance Quarterly ; This study seeks to demonstrate that the timing, subject, and audience for the art of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien all argue against the view that the witches in their prints and drawings were a reaction to actual witch-hunts, trials, or malevolent treatises such as the Malleus maleficiarum. The
	Humanistische Lyrik des 16. Jahrhunderts: Lateinisch und deutsch German Quarterly ; Kuhlmann Wilhelm, Robert Seidel, and Hermann Wiegand, eds. and trans. Humanistische Lyrik des 16. Jahrhunderts: Lateinisch und deutsch, Bibliothek der fruhen Neuzeit 5. Frankfurt a. M.: Deutscher Klassiker, 1997.1592 pp. DM 198.00 hardcover. Latin poetry by sixteenth-century German humanists is the
	Erwin Panofsky and the renascence of the Renaissance. Renaissance Quarterly ; IT HAS LONG BEEN understood that historians, literary critics, and art historians who write about past cultures use those cultures for present purposes, whether by turning Periclean Athens into an ideal for present-day America or the fall of the Roman empire into an ominous signal for modern
	Die Deutschen Humanisten: Dokumente zur Uberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur in der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Book review) Renaissance Quarterly ; Wilhelm Kuhlmann, Volker Hartmann, and Susann El Kholi, eds. Die Deutschen Humanisten: Dokumente zur Uberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur in der Fruhen Neuzeit. 2 vols. Europa Humanistica. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005. 1,222 pp. [euro]85. ISBN: 2-503-52017-0. One of the
	The universities of the Renaissance and Reformation*.(The 2003 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture) Renaissance Quarterly ; A persistent view holds that Renaissance universities were conservative homes of outmoded knowledge. Professors droned on about Aristotle when they should have been teaching Copernicus and Galileo. Innovative research and religious revolution went on outside the lecture halls. Students came to the
	Socratic apology Artforum ; A WONDERFUL, HORRIBLE LIFE OF HANS-GEORG GADAMER BY RICHARD WOLIN * THE PHILOSOPHER HANS-GEORG GADAMER WAS A MODERN METHUSELAH. HE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 11, 1900, AND DIED ON MARCH 13, 2002. DURING HIS LIFETIME HE WITNESSED TWO WORLD WARS, HITLER'S SEIZURE OF POWER, THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM, AND

See all results.