Dancing around the Well : The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism.
Title:
Dancing around the Well : The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism.
Author:
MacPhail, Eric M.
ISBN:
9789004277151
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (177 pages)
Series:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; v.232
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Contents:
Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Dancing Around the Well -- Chapter 1 In the Beginning there was Chaos -- Chapter 2 A Gem in its Setting -- Chapter 3 Words Frozen and Thawed -- Chapter 4 Rhapsody in Prose -- Chapter 5 The Mosaic of Speech -- Chapter 6 The Universal Library -- Chapter 7 In a Roman Mirror -- Conclusion: Emptying the Well -- Bibliography -- Index locorum communium -- Index rerum perutilium -- Index nominum illustrium -- Index Erasmianus.
Abstract:
Dancing around the Well: The Circulation of Commonplaces in Renaissance Humanism examines the reception and reuse of classical sayings in vernacular and neo-Latin authors of the sixteenth century, especially through the mediation of Erasmus' Adages.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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