Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
| Author | : Ann Moss |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| ISBN-10 | : UCSC:32106013309411 |
| ISBN-13 | : |
| Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought by : Ann Moss
Download or read book Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought written by Ann Moss and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.
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