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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (Paperback)
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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (Paperback)
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This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread
of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the
connections between individuals who were part of the humanist
movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them
together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists
as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on
economics and the production of original works in Latin, he offers
a new way of understanding how the humanist movement could
incorporate so many who were illiterate in Latin, but who
nonetheless were responsible for an intellectual and cultural
paradigm shift. The book demonstrates the massive appeal of the
humanist movement across socio-economic and political groups, and
argues that the movement became so successful and widespread
because by the 1420s-30s the demands of common rituals began
requiring humanist speeches. Over time, humanist learning became
more valuable as social capital, which raised the status of the
most learned humanists and helped disseminate humanist ideas beyond
Florence.
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