RENAISSANCE THOUGHT
(c. 1400 - c. 1600)

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

• France:

  • Peter Ramus (1515 - 1572)

  • Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

• Italy:

  • Lorenzo Valla (1406 - 1457)

  • Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499)

  • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 - 1494)

  • Nicolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)

  • Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600)

• Netherlands:

  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)

• Spain:

  • Juan Luis Vives (1492 - 1540)

• UK:

  • Thomas Wilson (1525 - 1581)

Topics:

• Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory

Feminist:

• Renaissance Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Thought:

  • Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory by Women / Feminist Perspectives on Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Renaissance Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Renaissance Thought:

  • Renaissance Non-Western Literature and Literary Theory / Post-colonial Perspectives on Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• Israel Association for Renaissance Studies

• Renaissance Society of America

• Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

• Society for Reformation Research

• Society for Renaissance Studies

• South-Central Renaissance Conference

CONFERENCES

2008:

• 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

• 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

• 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)

JOURNALS

• Renaissance Studies

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.
  • Cassirer, Ernst, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, Jr., eds.  The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1948.
  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar.  Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1964.
  • Ross, James Bruce, and Mary McLaughlin, eds.  The Portable Renaissance Reader.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1953.

• Selected Individual Works:

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On-Line:

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

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Kahn, Victoria, Neil Saccamano, and Daniela Coli, eds.  Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

  • 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.
  • Rutherford, Donald, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
  • 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.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Socio-Historical Context:
    • Burckhardt, Jakob.  The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. 
    • 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
    . 
  • Bush, Douglas.  The Renaissance and English Humanism
  • Cassirer, Ernst.  The Individual and the Cosmos.  New York: Dover, .
  • Copenhaver, Brian P.  Renaissance Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1992.
  • 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.

  • Howell, Wilbur S.  Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1956.

  • Jardine, Lisa.  “Lorenzo Valla: Academic Skepticism and the New Humanist Dialectic.”  The Skeptical Tradition.  Ed. Myles Burnyeat.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.
  • Kahn, Victoria.  Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.
  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar.  Renaissance Thought: the Classic, Scholastic and Humanistic Strains.  2 Vols.
  • Kristeller, Paul Oskar.  Renaissance Thought and its Sources.  New York: Columbia UP, 1979.
  • Lovejoy, A. O.    The Great Chain of Being: Studies in the History of an Idea. 
  • Ong, Walter J.  "Humanism."  New Catholic Encyclopedia.  1967.
  • Seigel, Jerrold.  Rhetoric and Philosophy in Renaissance Humanism: the Union of Eloquence and Wisdom, Petrarch to Valla.  1980.

  • Streuver, Nancy S.  The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970.

  • Tillyard, E. M.    The Elizabethan World Picture. 

On-Line:

• Abbagnano, Nicola: Renaissance Humanism Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

• Hammer, Olav: Transgressing Boundaries: Magic and Rationalism in Two Renaissance Philosophers

• Hooker, Richard:

  • Discovery and Reformation

  • Italian Renaissance

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Category: Reformation:

    • English Reformation

    • Protestant Reformation

  • Category: Renaissance:

    • Renaissance:

      • English Renaissance
      • French Renaissance
      • Italian Renaissance

    • Renaissance Humanism

    • Renaissance Philosophy

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Canada:

• University of Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation 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

WWW GATEWAYS

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Pay, Rex: Humanistic Texts
• RENAIS-L
• Web4Ren Forum for Renaissance Intellectual History

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