Renaissance Thought and Its Sources

Abstract

Editor's Preface Introduction Part One: Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity Introduction 1. The Humanist Movement 2. The Aristotelian Tradition 3. Renaissance Platonism 4. Paganism and Christianity Part Two: Renaissance Thought and the Middle Ages 5. Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance 6. Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition Part Three: Renaissance Thought and Byzantine Learning 7. Italian Humanism and Byzantium 8. Byzantine and Western Platonism in the Fifteenth Century Part Four: Renaissance Concepts of Man Introduction 9. The Dignity of Man 10. The Immortality of the Soul 11. The Unity of Truth Part Five: Philosophy and Rhetoric From Antiquity to the Renaissance Introduction 12. Classical Antiquity 13. The Middle Ages 14. The Renaissance Notes Index