The humanist world of Renaissance Florence / / Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463972103321
• Autore: Maxson Brian <1978->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-139-89495-1; 1-107-70323-9; 1-107-70199-6; 1-107-67085-3; 1-107-69333-0; 1-107-70401-4; 1-107-59874-5; 1-107-35825-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 945/.51105
• Soggetti: Humanism - Italy - Florence - History; Renaissance - Italy - Florence; Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: a social conception of the humanist movement -- Learned connections and the humanist movement -- Literary and social humanists -- The social origins of the Florentine humanists -- The humanist demands of ritual -- Failure of the literary humanists or literary failure of the civic humanists? -- The rise of the social humanists, 1400-1455 -- Humanism as a means to social status, 1456-1485.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and ; the production of original works in Latin, he offers a new way of understanding how the humanist movement could incorporate so many who were illiterate in Latin, but who nonetheless were responsible for an intellectual and cultural paradigm shift. The book demonstrates the massive appeal of the humanist movement across socio-economic and political groups and argues that the movement became so successful and widespread because by the 1420s-30s the demands of common rituals began requiring humanist speeches. Over time, humanist learning became more valuable as social capital, which raised the status of the most learned humanists and helped disseminate humanist ideas beyond Florence.

The Road to Normalcy : The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524866303321
• Autore: Bagby Wesley M (Wesley Marvin), <1922-2002, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press
• ISBN: 0-8018-0046-3; 1-4214-3560-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (206 pages))
• Collana: The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science. Series 80, ; no. 1
• Disciplina: 973.913
• Soggetti: Presidents - United States - Election - 1920; Democratie - États-Unis; Presidents - États-Unis - Élection (1920); Wahl; Presidents - Election; Project Muse; United States Politique et gouvernement 1913-1921; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published in 1962
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1962. In The Road to Normalcy, Wesley M. Bagby explains how the election of 1920 contributed to momentous shifts in American politics by detailing why the major political parties abandoned sentiments that were widely accepted several years prior to the election. Prior to World War I, two significant streams of progressivism maintained center stage in American politics—the Progressive movement and the world peace movement. The war proved not to be prohibitively distracting for the Progressive movement, which carried on well into the war years. But the war also introduced new elements into American political life, such as the restriction of free speech, popular outbursts of intolerance and hatred encouraged by war propaganda, and a belief in the necessity and efficacy of violence. Many of these elements eroded the ideals undergirding the Progressive movement. The international peace movement reflected the spirit of idealistic internationalism that characterized the tenor of American foreign policy from the beginning to the end of the war. However, the election of 1920, the first presidential election after World War I, addressed the question of whether America would resume its progressive efforts at home and abroad following the war. The election ultimately stymied both political currents, proving to be an end for both the Progressive movement and the world peace movement.