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From its foundation in 1427 to its suppression in 1785, the Confraternity of the Purification gave Florentine youths the opportunity to channel their energy into useful, social pursuits. This study shows that the Purification made important contributions to Florentine political, theatrical, artistic and musical developments.

Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is the first English-language monograph to study the impact of physico-theology on the intellectual and socio-cultural establishment in Europe from the mid-17th century.

Making Mathematical Culture analyses the rise of the printed book and how it contributed to the growing profile of mathematics in Europe. Using student manuscripts and annotated books, this volume offers a new account of how printing shaped one of the fastest-growing institutions of the early modern period, the university.

A study of the ways in which the text and meaning of the Bible were debated by scholars and theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in seventeenth-century Europe, considering the technical problems faced by scholars studying and editing the text in its original languages, and the religious and political pressures affecting the ways they worked.

The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-breaking investigations into the Church's history from Christ to the Renaissance. This study shows how his writings impacted on church and society, but also how he changed historical writing.

This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics.

`(This) handsomely illustrated book is an original attempt to make clear how much the art of the orators and the painters in the Renaissance had in common ... Extremely important for the history of art...' Neo-Latin News .

Jean-Louis Quantin shows how the appeal to Christian antiquity played a key role in the construction of a new confessional identity, 'Anglicanism', maintaining that theologians of the Church of England came to consider that their Church occupied a unique position, because it alone was faithful to the beliefs and practices of the Church Fathers.

The history of scholarship has recently undergone a complete renewal: it is now a major branch of research. The contributors - all specialists of international standing - illustrate a variety of themes and approaches. A substantial introduction surveys the past vicissitudes of the history of scholarship and its current expansion.

Between 1513 and 1525 Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters which continued to be reissued regularly, well into the early seventeenth century. Based upon primary sources, this book, from an expert in the field of Renaissance studies, offers an interpretation of the impact of Machiavelli.

Based on new research, a distinguished international team studies the forms in which scientific knowledge was transmitted in the late medieval and early modern period, the ways they interacted, and the people to whom the knowledge was directed. Among the famous authors whose work is examined here are Fuchs, Vesalius, Tycho Brahe, and Descartes.

This first contextualized study of the rich tradition of Ramism has wide-ranging implications for the intellectual, cultural, and social histories not only of the Holy Roman Empire but also of the entire Protestant world in the crucial decades immediately preceding the advent of the 'new philosophy' in the mid-seventeenth century.

This work investigates the ways in which the Medici established and exercised their authority. It examines the complex system of controls which the Medici gradually created to secure and increase their ascendancy.

Examines the activities of the Savonarolan party from the time of its formation during Savonarola's ascendancy, identifies its strategies for survival after the execution of Savonarola, and analyzes the party's contribution to the political and religious life of Florence.

This first full study of the subject discusses how 17C Catholic missionaries tried to force the Copts (Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria) into union with the Church of Rome, and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. Includes a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West.

The first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The author discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation.

This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance culture, and discusses rhetorical training as well as the opinions on rhetoric of major scholars including Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Sturm.

This volume describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), perhaps the most original scholar of the later Renaissance. It concentrates on his efforts to date the main events of ancient and medieval history, a study that required him to use both astronomical data and philological methods.

This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts.It offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life.

This book collects eight lectures given at the Warburg Institute in 1958-59 by Scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States. They are concerned with the aftermath of the conversion of Constantine - the conflicts between pagans and Christians and their effects on the life and thought of fourth-century Rome.

This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.

The study of court festivals, spectacle, and civic pageantry in Renaissance Europe has developed into a major academic industry, so that the market for works on these themes extends beyond the boundaries of conventional scholarly disciplines. Discussing material published since 1969, this book includes a bibliographical and critical preface.