Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
George Hugo Tucker
Introduction: Petrarch’s
Curious Mountain of Virtue
1
I
SCHOLASTICISM AND HUMANISM: INTERFACE AND INTERPLAY
Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell
Dante between Scholasticism and Humanism:
Aspects of the Monarchy
29
Luc Deitz
Scholastic Logic and Renaissance Poetics:
A Few Observations on J. C. Scaliger’s
Poetices libri septem (1561)
49
Annabel S. Brett
Authority, Reason and the Self-definition of
Theologians in the Spanish “Second Scholastic”
63
Toon Van Houdt
Lessius’s Views on Taxation and Justice:
Scholastic Background and Humanist Applications
91
II
FIGURES AND FORMS: THE MARKERS OF A CONTINUUM
David J. Cowling
Figures for Text and Author
in Late Medieval France and Burgundy:
Les Douze Dames de Rhétorique (1463)
121
Margaret M. Smith
Medieval Roots of the Renaissance Printed Book:
An Essay in Design History
143
Philip J. Ford
Alexandre de Villedieu’s Doctrinale puerorum:
A Medieval Bestseller and Its Fortune in the Renaissance
155
III
ARIADNE’S THREAD: THE MAPPING OF RECURRENCE AND CHANGE
Gilbert Tournoy
Apollo and Admetus: The Forms of a Classical Myth
through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
175
Wes Williams
“Strange fruit”: The Culture of Pilgrimage
from Mandeville to the Missionaries
205
Index
225
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