The Art of Arguing in the World of Renaissance Humanism

Edited by Marc Laureys and Roswitha Simons

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Strategies and characteristics of scournful criticism and fierce debate in the Humanist tradition
Renaissance humanists were often engaged in a wide variety of polemics, ranging from matter-of-fact debate to scathing invective. The programmatic nature of Renaissance humanism, intent on a fundamental reform of language, education, and society at large, led the humanists almost inevitably to conflicts with those who represented other intellectual traditions, first and foremost the Scholastics. In addition, internal competition among humanists sparked violent quarrels, in which opponents walked a thin line between defensive self-preservation and aggressive self-promotion. In the 16th century, the practice of dispute was partly reshaped by new national and confessional divides; the intensification of controversy also prompted a more conscious reflection on the potential and limits of polemical exchange. This volume sheds light on the characteristics and strategies of the humanist art of arguing through a series of case studies from representative areas. The contributors intend to show how humanists constantly remodelled the art of arguing by exploiting in ever new ways the Classical rhetoric of blame and thus paved the way for the early modern culture of dispute.

Contributors
Arnold Becker (University of Bonn), Christine Bénévent (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance / University of Tours), Olga Anna Duhl (Lafayette College, Easton, PA), Chris L. Heesakkers (Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden), Marc Laureys (University of Bonn), Joanna Partyka (University of Warsaw / Polish Academy of Sciences), Roswitha Simons (University of Göttingen), George Hugo Tucker (University of Reading)

Acknowledgements

Marc Laureys / Roswitha Simons / Arnold Becker, Towards a
Theory of the Humanistic Art of Arguing

Roswitha Simons, Waffen der Nemesis, Pfeile der Satire. Gewaltmetaphorik
im metapoetischen Diskurs neulateinischer Satiriker
 
Olga Anna Duhl, Poetic Theory and Sense Perception in Jodocus
Badius Ascensius’s Stultiferae naues (c. 1501): from Subitus
Calor to Vituperatio
 
Arnold Becker, Huttens Arminius: Humanistische Streitkultur
zwischen literarischer Unverlässlichkeit und nationaler Identitätsstiftung
 
Christine Bénévent, Des Barbares aux Cicéroniens Ou comment
accommoder l’art de la dispute selon Érasme
 
Chris L. Heesakkers, Multa fortuito fieri. Alberto Pio’s postmortem
Praefatio in his Controversy with Erasmus, an Ill-fated
Advance
 
George Hugo Tucker, Strategies of Argument, Politics and Poetics
in the Centones ex Virgilio (1555-1556) of Lelio Capilupi
of Mantua
 
Marc Laureys, Die Kunst der Verunglimpfung in Nikodemus
Frischlins Satiren gegen Jakob Rabus
 
Joanna Partyka, The Classical Tradition as a Weapon against the
obtrectatores Poloniae
 
Contributors
Index nominum

Format: Edited volume - paperback

Size: 240 × 160 × 150 mm

232 pages

ISBN: 9789058679635

Publication: December 05, 2013

Series: Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 34

Languages: English

Stock item number: 83554

Marc Laureys is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin Philology as well as Founding Director of the Centre for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn.


Roswitha Simons is Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies of the University of Göttingen.


All in all, between the methodological introduction and the case-studies, this is a valuable volume in an area that deserves more study.
Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University, Neo-Latin News Vol 62