The Image of Man: A Study of the Idea of Human Dignity in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (Classic Reprint)

Politics & Social Sciences

Baker, Herschel

Philosophy

Forgotten Books

The most extensive collection of its kind available! The period from the accession of James I in 1603 to the restoration of his grandson Charles II in 1660, or from the death of Spenser to Dryden's emergence as a writer, was a time when doctors wrote about religion, politicians doubled as historians, divines were men of letters, and everybody had an opinion about politics. This extensive collection of writings, painstakingly examined in their earliest printed or manuscript sources and compiled by the late Herschel Baker, provides reliable texts for a generous sampling of the nondramatic literary activity of a period rich in writers great and small. Baker fully immerses readers into a period of exciting and important literary expression, believing that representing only the giants of this momentous time--Andrewes, Donne, Taylor, Clarendon, Bacon, or Hobbes--gives a very partial view of an age conspicuous for its conflict and diversity.

The Later Renaissance in England: Nondramatic verse and prose, 1600-1660

Literature & Fiction

Houghton/Mifflin

The Race of Time - three lectures on Renaissance historiography - The Alexander Lectures for 1965 at the University of Toronto dealt with the relations of the English Renaissance historians to other writers of their time and to the historians of later ages. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, even more than in our own time, the materials and techniques proper to historical writings were but vaguely defined. When the facts at his disposal were suspect or were merely crystallizations of fancy and legend, the Renaissance historian found that he was unable to deal with the without encroaching on the territory of the poet. When - inevitably - he attempted to draw conclusions from his view of the past and of human nature, he usurped the function of the philosopher. And even when he stayed within the bounds of indisputable fact he risked offending monarchs to whom certain facts, if widely known, would be dangerous. All these difficulties, and the ways in which Renaissance historians faced or avoided them, are recounted and analyzed in professor Baker's lectures. Supported and enlivened with a wealth of quotation from the historians themselves, their critics, and their colleagues, The Race of time illuminates the problems of historiography in an age when academic freedom was always subservient to the national interest, to the sensitivity of rules, to the prevalence of legend, and to the envy of contemporaries.

The Race of Time

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Univ. of Toronto Press

<p>The most extensive collection of English Renaissance literature! This extensive volume presents a survey of the literature of Renaissance England, including the Tudor and Elizabethan periods, the Reformation, translations from classical Greek and Latin works, prose fiction, critical theory, and other forms of literature that characterize this period. Completely self- contained, this valuable collection of works features a glossary of English words and phrases containing over 5,600 entries, a glossary of names and foreign words and phrases containing over 3,200 entries, and background information on many of the authors and works. A comprehensive index lists authors, titles, and first lines of poems.</p>

The Renaissance in England: Non-Dramatic Prose and Verse of the 16th Century

Rollins, Hyder Edward

British & Irish

Waveland Pr Inc.

<p>The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.</p>

The Wadsworth Shakespeare

Levin, Harry

Evans, G. Blakemore

Barton, Anne

Shakespeare., William

Literary

Cengage Learning'

Excerpt from The Image of Man: A Study of the Idea of Human Dignity in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance Surely the most pleasant of an author's duties is to thank those who through their knowledge and generosity have lightened his labors. The dedication of this book signalizes, if inadequately, my sense of obligation to a man who as both friend and teacher has put me lastingly in his debt. Henry Nash Smith permitted himself to become involved in the very conception of this work, and I have probably profited more than I myself realize from his fine sense of history and his generous interest. Theodore Spencer and Douglas Bush took the trouble not only to read a bulky manuscript but through their detailed suggestions to give it virtues it would otherwise have lacked. D. T. Starnes was good enough to give the third section the benefit of his close knowledge of Renaissance literature. The Syndics of the Harvard University Press and Mr. Roger Scaife, the. Directoi', have undertaken to publish without subsidy a book from which, in the nature of things, they can'expect no great return; and their agents, particularly Mrs. Cedric Whitman, have been unfailingly coliperative. A grant from the Research Council of the University of Texas afforded me a Couple of months of blissful leisure for composition. Finally, I shall defy convention by thanking my wife for something other than her typing, ex cellent as it is. Although her services in behalf of this book will be name less, it must be said that without them it would probably never have been written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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