Affiliation:
1. Universidad de Buenos Aires
Abstract
The article reviews the scholarly discussions regarding the definition and characteristics of humanism by focusing on the continuity and discontinuity theses, as well as the ideological and disciplinary implications that have shaped the intellectual field among medievalists and Renaissance scholars over two centuries. The conservative features of Italian humanism can be traced in the endurance of scholastic teaching in universities, medieval patterns of thought, pedagogical methods and traditional curriculum design. On the other hand, Italian humanism evinced an innovative meta-linguistic awareness that took the form of unprecedented debates on the historicity and status of languages, fostered new reading methods, rigorous philological approaches and a wide-ranging translation agenda.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company