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The third international conference on classical influences took
place in Cambridge in 1977 under the title 'Classical Influences in
Western Education, Philosophy and Social Theory'. Dr Bolgar has
here collected and edited the proceedings and produced a volume
which attempts to relate the progress of classical studies to the
general history of ideas from the mid-seventeenth to the
mid-nineteenth century. The book should be of interest to
specialists in classical studies, to students of the literature of
the period, and to students of eighteenth-century French, Italian
and American history.
These studies illustrate the different ways in which the
Renaissance made use of its classical heritage, and how a variety
of techniques were employed to transform the material that could be
derived from the ancient classics so that it could serve the social
and cultural purposes of Renaissance man. The scope of the volume
covers discussions of catalogues and editions of humanist works;
the humanist contribution to the art of discourse; humanism and
religion; humanism and political thought; and finally the
contribution of the humanists to the useful and fine arts. This
volume consists of papers delivered at the second conference on
Classical Influences held at King's College, Cambridge, in 1974.
This book should be of interest to specialists in classical
studies, Renaissance studies and the history of literature and
ideas, and specialists in French, German and Italian studies. The
last three articles will also interest art historians.
This volume consists of original papers first read at Kings
College, Cambridge, in 1969 at the International Conference on
Classical Influences. The contributors are distinguished in a wide
range of academic disciplines but all are concerned in one way or
another with the spread and influence of classical, particularly
Roman, civilisation through a number of European cultures from AD
500 to 1500. The book begins with the manuscript tradition - the
contents, location and history of the literary remains that provide
the basic evidence on which all research in this subject must to
some extent rely. This leads naturally to a discussion of what
classical texts were actually read and studied, when, where and by
whom. The majority of contributors go on to examine the Roman
tradition as a positive cultural on language, literature,
philosophy and art. Classical civilisation is shown to be a live
historical force whose survival consists rather in the creative
responses and developments it has inspired than in the mere
preservation of its physical relics.
Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has
become established as a classic introduction to cultural and
intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the
Renaissance.
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