The poet's wisdom : the Humanists, the Church, and the formation of philosophy in the early Renaissance / by Timothy Kircher.
| Author/creator | Kircher, Timothy |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. |
| Description | x, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 133 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 133. ^A682319 |
| Contents | Tracking the vagaries of time : anxiety and freedom in humanist accounts of the plague of 1348 -- Morality's hazy mirror : the humanist modality of moral communication in the Decameron -- The paradox of experience and moral authority in Petrarch's writings -- The sea as an image of temporality -- The ethics of pleasure : faces of the feminine -- Senescence and renascence. |
| Review | "The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjective, and emotional quality of moral sensibility, in a way that shifts to the reader the weight of discerning the ethical message."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kircher, Timothy. Poet's wisdom. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006 |
| LCCN | 2005050829 |
| ISBN | 9004146377 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9789004146372 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | B778 .K57 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |