TY - BOOK AU - Nauert,Charles G. TI - Humanism and the culture of Renaissance Europe T2 - New approaches to European history SN - 0521839092 AV - CB361 .N34 2006 U1 - 940.21 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Renaissance KW - Humanism KW - Europe N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-241) and index; 1; The birth of humanist culture --; 2; Humanism becomes dominant --; 3; Humanism and Italian society --; 4; Crossing the Alps --; 5; Triumph and disaster --; 6; Humanism in the late Renaissance --; 7; The end of an age N2 - "In this updated edition of his account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political, and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces humanism's emergence in the unique social and cultural conditions of fourteenth-century Italy and its gradual diffusion throughout the rest of Europe from the late fifteenth century onwards."--BOOK JACKET UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2006282084-b.html ER -