Humphrey Duke of Gloucester and the Introduction of Italian Humanism in Fifteenth Century England
Description:
Duke Humphrey of Gloucester is often given credit for the renaissance of English learning in the fifteenth century. It is true that the donations of books he made to Oxford, his patronage of English and Italian writers, and his patronage of administrators who had humanist training resulted in the transmittal of humanist values to England. But is it also true that these accomplishments were mainly the by-product of his self-aggrandizing style, rather than a conscious effort on the duke's part to…
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Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Doyle, John F. (John Francis)
Partner:
UNT Libraries