Publisher's Synopsis
The "Journal of the History of Ideas" has, over the years, published many articles on the Renaissance; this selection aims to provide a significant index of American scholarship in the field during the first 25 years of the journal's publication.;Apart from the quality of the papers, the main criterion of selection has been their diversity. The editors aimed to present a broad cross-section of the intellectual history of the Renaissance, and have on the whole preferred comprehensive rather than monographic studies. Topics include the so-called problem of the Renaissance, the historical thought of the period, its social, moral and religious thought, humanism, philosophy and science, literature, the visual arts and music.