An up-to-date synthesis of the spread and impact of humanism in Europe. A team of Renaissance scholars of international reputation including Peter Burke, Sydney

These are explored through a reassessment of the role of humanism, with case studies in music (Josquin Desprez), moral philosophy (Valla, Castiglione, Erasmus,

The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than

While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent