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Humanism and Secularization - From Petrarch to Valla (Hardcover)
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Humanism and Secularization - From Petrarch to Valla (Hardcover)
Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from
Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern
culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to
these debates-and to this book-is the question of whether (and how)
the humanist movement contributed to the secularization of Western
cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages. A preeminent
scholar of Italian humanism, Riccardo Fubini approaches this
question in a new way-by redefining the problem of secularization
more carefully to show how humanists can at once be secularizers
and religious thinkers. The result is a provocative vision of the
humanist movement. Humanism and Secularization offers a nuanced
account of humanists contesting medieval ideas about authority not
in order to reject Christianity or even orthodoxy, but to claim for
themselves the right to define what it meant to be a Christian.
Fubini analyzes key texts by major humanists-isuch as Petrarch,
Poggio, and Valla-from the first century of the movement. As he
subtly works out these authors' views on religion and the Church
from both biographical and textual information, Fubini reveals in
detail the new historical consciousness that animated the humanists
in their reading of classical and patristic texts. His book as a
whole shows convincingly just how radical the humanism of the first
half of the fifteenth century was and how sharply it challenged
well-entrenched ideas and institutions. Appearing here in English
for the first time, his work provides a model set of readings of
humanist texts and a critical perspective on Italian humanism that
will alter and enrich discussion and understanding of the nature of
the humanist movement.
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