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Beyond Reception : Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity - Patrick Baker

Beyond Reception

Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity

By: Patrick Baker (Editor)

Hardcover | 1 April 2019

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Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity in the slow process of the European societies constructing a scientific system and their own cultural identity, a process which started in the Middle Ages and has continued up to the Modern Age.

The series is a product of work in the Collaborative Research Centre "Transformations of Antiquity" and the "August Boeckh Centre of Antiquity" at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Their individual projects examine transformational processes on three levels in particular - the constitutive function of Antiquity in the formation of the European knowledge society, the role of Antiquity in the genesis of modern cultural identities and self-constructions, and the forms of reception in art, literature, translation and media.

* new transdisciplinary series
* the editors are prominent professors from different disciplines at the Humboldt University of Berlin
* strengthens de Gruyter's profile in Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Intellectual History

Die Antike und ihre Rezeption wurden bisher weitgehend in den Grenzen von Fachdisziplinen erforscht. In der Reihe Transformationen der Antike steht dagegen die interdisziplinare Kontextualisierung der produktiven Transformationen antiker Wissenschaften und Kunste im Vordergrund. Dargestellt wird der langwellige, von der Spatantike bis zur Moderne reichende Prozess der Herausbildung des Wissenschaftssystems der Kunstgattungen und der kulturellen Selbstkonstruktion der europaischen Gesellschaften.

Die Reihe geht hervor aus dem Sonderforschungsbereich Transformationen der Antike" und dem August Boeckh-Antikezentrum" an der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Ihre Projekte untersuchen Transformationsprozesse insbesondere auf drei Ebenen: die konstitutiven Funktionen der Antike bei der Ausbildung der europaischen Wissenschaftsgesellschaft und ihrer Disziplinen; die Rolle der Antike bei der Entstehung mittelalterlicher, neuzeitlicher und moderner kultureller Identitaten; sowie die kunstlerischen, literarischen, ubersetzerischen und medialen Formen von Rezeption und Transformation.

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Beyond Reception is an interesting volume that contains some outstanding contributions. [...] Despite the range of the topics covered, several of the chapters are in dialogue with each other and the theoretical views outlined by the editors in the introduction are articulated in various ways throughout the volume, offering both a review of the development of scholarship within Renaissance studies, as well as a prospectus of the shape of things to come.
Carl O'Brien in: BMCR 2019.10.31

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