RENAISSANCE THOUGHT

Classicisms in the English Renaissance, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, June 19-21
Third Annual Meeting, Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, San Francisco State University, February 23-24

2007:

Annual Conference, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, University of Minnesota, October 24-28
Experiments, Reason and Revelation: the Moral Value of Studying Nature in Early Modernity, Princeton / Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, July 28-August 4
Continuities and Disruptions between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, June 15-16
Justice and Borders, School of Politics and International Relations, School of Philosophy, and School of Social Justice. University College Dublin, May 2
Knowledge and Science in the Francophone Atlantic World, c. 1500-c. 1800 / Sciences et Savoirs dans le Monde Atlantique Francophone (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), French Atlantic History Group, Pointe-à-Callière Museum, Montreal, April 27-28
Statehood and State Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period, Heidelberg Academy of Applied Sciences and Humanities, April 3-5
Departure for Modern Europe: Philosophy between 1400 and 1700, First International European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) Congress, Essen, Haus der Technik, March 26-30
Early Modern Philosophy in Britain and the Netherlands, 1500-1800, Annual Conference, British Society for the History of Philosophy, Centrale Bibliotheek Rotterdam, March 26-28
Annual Conference, Renaissance Society of America, Miami, March 22-24
Exploring the Renaissance 2007, South-Central Renaissance Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 8-10

2006:

Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX, College at Wise, University of Virginia, September 14-16
World as Stage / Stage as World, Fourteenth Annual Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group Symposium, August 4-5

2005:

2004:

Renaissance Prose Conference, Renaissance Studies Program, Purdue University, November 4-5
Interiority in Early Modern England 1500-1700, Department of English, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, October 15-16

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference

COURSES

Carleton University: Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation (Dubrule)
Oregon State University: History of Western Philosophy, 1492 to 1776 (Uzgalis)
Southern Connecticut University: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (Gilliland)

JOURNALS

Renaissance Studies

PERSONS

In Chronological Order:

Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464)
Lorenzo Valla (1406 - 1457)
Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499)
Pietro Pomponazzi (1462 - 1525)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 - 1494)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543)
Thomas More (1477 - 1535)
Baldassare Castiglione (1478 - 1529)
Francisco de Vitoria (1480 - 1546)
Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
Juan Luis Vives (1492 - 1540)
Petrus Ramus (1515 - 1572)
Franciscus Patricius (1529 - 1597)
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600)
Francisco Suárez (1548 - 1617)
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639)
Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)
Hugo Grotius (1583 - 1645)

By Nationality:

France:
- Petrus Ramus (1515 - 1572)
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Germany:
- Nicholas of Cusa (1401 - 1464)
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)
Italy:
- Lorenzo Valla (1406 - 1457)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499)
- Pietro Pomponazzi (1462 - 1525)
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 - 1494)
- Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478 - 1529)
- Franciscus Patricius (1529 - 1597)
- Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600)
- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568 - 1639)
Netherlands:
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
- Hugo Grotius (1583 - 1645)
Poland:
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543)
Spain:
- Francisco de Vitoria (1480 - 1546)
- Juan Luis Vives (1492 - 1540)
- Francisco Suárez (1548 - 1617)
UK:
- Thomas More (1477 - 1535)
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

Ashgate: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Aughterson, Kate, ed. The English Renaissance: an Anthology of Sources and Documents. London: Routledge, 1998.
- Black, Robert, ed. Renaissance Thought: a Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
- Cassirer, Ernst, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, Jr., eds. The Renaissance Philosophy of Man. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1948.
- Kennedy, Leonard A., ed. Renaissance Philosophy: New Translations of Lorenzo Valla, Paul Cortese, Cajetan, T. Bacciliere, Juan Luis Vives, Peter Ramus. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter, 1973.
- Kraye, Jill, ed. Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts. 2 Vols. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
- Ross, James Bruce, and Mary McLaughlin, eds. The Portable Renaissance Reader. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953.
Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

Archives:
- Bear, Richard: Renascence Editions, 1477-1799
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Selected Individual Works:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Socio-Historical Context:
- General:
  - Hankins, James, ed. Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.
  - Kraye, J., ed. Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
  - Parkinson, G. H. R., ed. The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism. Vol. 4 of Routledge History of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1993.
  - Schmitt, C. B., Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye, eds. Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 1988.
  - Wettstein, Howard, and Peter French, eds. Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
- Being:
- Communication:
- History:
- Human Nature:
- Knowledge:
- Morality:
- Nature:
- Philosophy / Theory:
- Religion:
- Society:
  - Kahn, Victoria, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli, eds. Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.
Selected Individual Works:
- Socio-Historical Context:
  - Debus, Allen George. Man and Nature in the Renaissance. Cambridge: CUP, 1978.
  - Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation.
  - Green, V. H. H. Renaissance and Reformation
  - Hill, Christopher. Reformation to Industrial Revolution: the Making of Modern English Society, 1530-1780.
  - Hill, Christopher. Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England.
  - Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution.
  - Hunter, Michael. Science and Society in Restoration England. Cambridge: CUP, 1981.
  - Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: a New History of the Renaissance.
  - Koenigsberger, H. G. Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789
  - Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Revolution
  - Russell, Conrad. The Crisis of Parliaments: English History 1509-1660.
  - Russell, Conrad, ed. The Origins of the English Civil War.
  - Shuger, Deborah. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture.
  - Stone, Lawrence. The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642.
  - Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641.
  - Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800.
  - Stone, Lawrence. Social Change and Revolution in England, 1501-1540
- General:
  - Allen, Michael J. B. "Renaissance Neoplatonism." The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 435-441.
  - Brown, Stuart. "Renaissance Philosophy outside Italy." The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism. Ed. G. H. R. Parkinson. Vol. 4 of Routledge History of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1993. 70-103.
  - Burckhardt, Jakob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.
  - Bush, Douglas. Renaissance and English Humanism. London: , 1939.
  - Cassirer, Ernst. 1932.
    - The Platonic Renaissance in England and the School of Cambridge. Trans. J. P. Pettegrove. 1953.
  - Cassirer, Ernst. Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance. Leipzig: Teubner, 1927.
    - Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy. Trans. Mario Domandi. Oxford: Blackwell, 1963.
  - Copenhaver, Brian P., and Charles B. Schmitt. Renaissance Philosophy. Oxford: OUP, 1992.
  - Copleston, Frederick C. Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. Vol. 3 of A History of Philosophy. New York: Newman, 1953.
  - Grassi, Ernesto. Rhetoric as Philosophy: the Humanist Tradition. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1980. Rpt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001.
  - Grassi, Ernesto. Renaissance Humanism: Studies in Philosophy and Poetics. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
  - Grassi, Ernesto. Heidegger and the Question of Renaissance Humanism: Four Studies. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.
  - Haydn, Hiram. Counter-Renaissance. New York: , 1950.
  - Kenny, Anthony. The Rise of Modern Philosophy. Vol. 3 of A New History of Western Philosophy. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
  - Kraye, Jill. Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy . Variorum, 2002.
  - Kraye, Jill. "Stoicism and Epicureanism: Philosophical Revival and Literary Repercussions." The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 458-465.
  - Kraye, Jill. "The Philosophy of the Italian Renaissance." The Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Rationalism. Ed. G. H. R. Parkinson. Vol. 4 of Routledge History of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1993. 16-69.
  - Kristeller, Paul Oskar. "Humanism." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 113-138.
  - Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought and its Sources. New York: Columbia UP, 1979.
  - Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Renaissance Thought II: Papers on Humanism and the Arts. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
  - Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1964.
  - Kristeller, Paul Oskar. The Classics and Renaissance Thought: the Classic, Scholastic and Humanistic Strains. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1955. Rpt. as Renaissance Thought. New York: Harper and Row, 1961.
  - Lovejoy, A. O. The Great Chain of Being: a Study in the History of an Idea. New York: Harper and Row, 1936.
  - Ong, Walter J. "Humanism." New Catholic Encyclopedia. 1967.
  - Parish, Richard. "Port-Royal and Jansenism." The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 475-486.
  - Rabil, arthur. Renaissance Humanism.
  - Randall, Catharine. "Calvinism and post-Tridentine developments." The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 466-474.
  - Tillyard, E. M. The Elizabethan World Picture.
- Being:
  - Hallyn, Fernand. "Cosmography and Poetics." The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 442-448.
  - Hallyn, Fernand. La Structure poétique du monde: Copernic, Kepler. Paris: Seuil, 1987.
    - The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler. Trans. Donald Leslie. Zone, 1990.
  - Lohr, Charles H. "Metaphysics." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 537-638.
- Communication:
- History:
  - Kelley, Donald R. "The Theory of History." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 746-762.
- Human Nature:
  - Kessler, Eckhard. "The Intellective Soul." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 485-434.
  - Park, Katharine. "The Organic Soul." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 464-484.
- Knowledge:
  - Jardine, Lisa. "Humanistic Logic." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 173-198.
  - Popkin, Richard H. "Theories of Knowledge." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 668-684.
  - Popkin, Richard H. The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Descartes. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
- Morality:
  - Kraye, Jill. "Moral Philosophy." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 303-386.
  - Streuver, Nancy S. Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
- Nature:
  - Blair, Ann. "Natural Philosophy and the 'New Science.'" The Renaissance. Ed. Glyn P. Norton. Vol. 3 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1999. 449-457.
  - Boas, Marie. The Scientific Renaissance, 1450-1630. London: , 1962.
  - Ingegno, Alfonso. "The New Philosophy of Nature." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 236-263.
- Philosophy / Theory:
  - Vasoli, Cesare. "The Renaissance Concept of Philosophy." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 57-74.
- Religion:
- Society:
  - Skinner, Quentin. "Political Philosophy." Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Ed. C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 389-452.

On-Line:

Abbagnano, Nicola: Renaissance Humanism (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
Blum Paul: Principles and Powers: How to Interpret Renaissance Philosophy of Nature Philosophically
Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Hammer, Olav: Transgressing Boundaries: Magic and Rationalism in Two Renaissance Philosophers
Hay, Denys: Idea of Renaissance (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
Hooker, Richard:
- Discovery and Reformation
- Italian Renaissance
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Renaissance
Kreis, Steven: Renaissance Humanism
Kuhn, Heinrich: Aristotelianism in the Renaissance (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Philosophy Pages: The Renaissance
Radical Academy: Humanism and the Renaissance
Trinkaus, Charles: Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Canada:

University of Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies

Europe:

Germany:
- Universiteit Muenchen: Institute for Renaissance Intellecual History and Philosophy
Netherlands:
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen: Faculteit der Filosofie: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy
UK:
- University of Kent: Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

USA:

California State University, Long Beach: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Duke University: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Maryland: Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
State University of New York, Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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