Humanism and the Church Fathers : Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and the Revival of Patristic Theology in the Early Italian Renaissance

This study of the foremost patristic scholar in 15th-century Florence is based almost exclusively on manuscript letters and incunabula in Greek, Latin, and Italian. The influence of the revival of patristic studies on the meaning and purpose of Renaissance learning emerges as one of the original considerations in this book which should be of interest to humanists, generally, but also to art historians, intellectual history researchers, theologians, and philosophers. Frontmatter (page N/A) PREFACE (page xi) CHAPTER I SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL FORMATION (page 1) CHAPTER II THE STUDIA HUMANITATIS (page 27) CHAPTER III THE RENAISSANCE OF PATRISTIC STUDIES (page 83) CHAPTER IV PATRISTICS AND REFORM (page 167) CHAPTER V PATRISTICS AND UNION OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CHURCHES (page 203) CONCLUSION (page 223) NOTES (page 228) BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 301) INDEX (page 315)