1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810734703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-33975-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Renaissance Society of America, , 2212-3091 ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

940.252

Soggetti

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

Europe History 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Spoliating Diogenes Laertius: Giannozzo Manetti’s Use(s) of the Lives of the Philosophers / Kahle Manuela -- Giannozzo Manetti: On Famous Men of Great Age, “Life of Socrates” / Manuela Kahle -- Giannozzo Manetti: Life of Socrates (excerpt) -- Bibliography -- Lives Transformed: John Whethamstede’s Use of Plutarch’s Lives / Marianne Pade -- John Wethamstede: Granarium, Part One, “Paulus” / Marianne Pade -- Bibliography -- Collective Biography as Historiography: The De viris illustribus of Bartolomeo Facio -- Bartolomeo Facio: On Illustrious Men, “Poets” and “Orators” -- Bibliography -- Perception of the Middle Ages and Self-Perception in German Humanism: Johannes Trithemius and the Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam … exornantium / Johannes Helmrath -- Johannes Trithemius: Catalogue of the Illustrious Men Who Have Adorned Germany in Every Way with Their Talents and Tireless



Studies (selections) / Johannes Helmrath and Patrick Baker -- Bibliography -- Philipp Melanchthon’s De Aristotele (1544): Biography as a Pedagogical Argument / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Philipp Melanchthon: On Aristotle (1544) / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Bibliography -- Biography as a Medium of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: Pierre Gassendi / Michael Weichenhan -- Pierre Gassendi: On the Life and Character of Epicurus, Dedicatory Letter / Patrick Baker and Michael Weichenhan -- Bibliography -- 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: “The Life of Plotinus Described by Porphyry” / Tue Søvsø and Leo Catana -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 strands of political, philosophical, and intellectual and cultural biography as well as on the intersection between biography, historiography, and philosophy. Individual texts from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century are presented as examples of how the ancient collective biographical tradition – as represented above all by Plutarch, Suetonius, Diogenes Laertius, and Jerome – was received and transformed in the Renaissance and beyond in accordance with the needs of humanism, religious controversy, politics, and the development of modern philosophy and science.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910908699203321

Titolo

American Jewish year book

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : The Jewish Publication Society of America, , 1899-

New York : , : The American Jewish Committee

Philadelphia : , : The Jewish Publication Society of America

New York : , : American Jewish Committee

ISSN

2213-9583

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Disciplina

296

Soggetti

Jews - United States

Jews

Juifs - États-Unis - Répertoires

Juifs - États-Unis

Juifs

Kulturleben

Religiöses Leben

Joden

JEWS

JUDAISM

UNITED STATES

DIRECTORIES

Jews - United States - History - 20th century

Periodical

Zeitschrift

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Zeitschrift

Israël et la diaspora Répertoires

United States

Verenigde Staten

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



Note generali

Edited 1899/1900-1905/1906 by C. Adler (with H. Szold, 1904/1905-1905/1906); 1906/1907-1907/1908 by H. Szold; 1908/1909- by the American Jewish Committee.

Issues for 1900/1901- include report of the 12th- year of the Jewish Publication Society of America, 1899/1900- (issued also separately in some years); issues for 1908/1909- include Report of the American Jewish Committee for 1906/1908- (issued also separately in some years).