Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe

Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe / edited by Patrick Baker.

"By way of essays and a selection of primary sources in parallel text, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing provides an introduction to a vast, significant, but neglected corpus of early modern literature: collective biography. It focuses especially on the various related stra...

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Other Authors: Baker, Patrick, 1976- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Renaissance Society of America texts and studies series ; v. 7.
Subjects:
To 1700
Biography > Social aspects > Europe > History.
Historiography > Social aspects > Europe > History.
Biography > Philosophy.
Historiography > Philosophy.
Biography > To 500 > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form > History.
European literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
BIOGRAPHY.
Biography
Biography as a literary form
Historiography > Philosophy
Historiography > Social aspects
Intellectual life
Europe > Biography > Philosophy.
Europe > Historiography > Philosophy.
Europe > Intellectual life.
Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Patrick Baker
  • Part 1. The history of philosophy and the persona of the philosopher
  • Spoliating Diogenes Laertius : Giannozzo Manetti's Use(s) of the lives of the philosophers / Manuela Kahle
  • Giannozzo Manetti: De illustribus longaevis, "Socrates"/On famous men of great age, "Life of Socrates" / Manuela Kahle
  • Giannozzo Manetti: Vita Socratis (excerpt)/Life of Socrates (excerpt) / Manuela Kahle
  • Part 2. Encyclopedic, historical, and moral biography
  • Lives transformed : John Whethamstede's use of Plutarch's lives / Marianne Pade
  • John Wethamstede: Granarium, pars prima, "Paulus"/Granarium, part one, "Paulus" / Marianne Pade
  • Part 3. Bio-bibliography and cultural history (I) : the history of a cultural movement
  • Collective biography as historiography : the De viris illustribus of Bartolomeo Facio / Patrick Baker
  • Bartolomeo Facio: De viris illustribus, "De poetis" et "De oratoribus"/On famous men, "Poets" and "Orators" / Patrick Baker
  • Part 4. Bio-bibliography and cultural history (II) : nationalism and apologetics
  • Perception of the Middle Ages and self-perception in German humanism : Johannes Trithemius and the Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam ... exornantium / Johannes Helmrath
  • Johannes Trithemius: Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam suis ingeniis et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornantium (excerpts)/Catalogue of the illustrious men who have adorned Germany in every way with their talents and tireless studies (excerpts) / Johannes Helmrath
  • Part 5. Philosophical and religious didacticism
  • Philipp Melanchthon's De Aristotele (1544) : biography as a pedagogical argument / Asaph Ben-Tov
  • Philipp Melanchthon: Oratio de Aristotele/On Aristotle / Asaph Ben-Tov
  • Part 6. Philosophizing and the persona of the philosopher
  • Biography as a medium of philosophy and the history of philosophy : Pierre Gassendi / Michael Weichenhan
  • Pierre Gassendi: De vita et moribus Epicuri, Epistola dedicatoria/On the life and character of Epicurus, Dedicatory letter / Michael Weichenhan
  • Part 7. Philosophical biography and the history of philosophy
  • From persona to systema : Heumann's dethronement of Porphyry's Life of Plotinus and the biographical model for writing the history of philosophy / Leo Catana
  • Christoph August Heumann: "Das Leben Plotini vom Porphyrio beschrieben"/"The life of Plotinus described by Porphyry" / Leo Catana.

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