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"Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History" brings together several disciplines and historical periods, and three generations of scholars to celebrate the pedagogical and scholarly career of Nancy Struever, who taught in the Humanities Center and Department of History at The Johns Hopkins University. Twenty-three essays reflect the breadth of disciplinary competence and the standards of scholarly rigor that Struever instilled in her students and demonstrates in her scholarship. The book is organized around three divisional areas of inquiry: Renaissance Humanism, Histories of Art, and Rhetorics, Philosophies, and Histories. The first part includes studies on Shakespeare and Ariosto; essays on Machiavelli, Caterina da Siena, and Lorenzo Valla; and Manetti on the library of Nicolas V. The section on histories of art contains contributions on L.B. Alberti, on early modern spectacle and the performance of images, and on rhetoric and art. The third section continues with discussions of rhetoric, history, and literature from a more theoretical viewpoint. The book concludes with a bibliography of Struever's works. Authors include: Marvin Becker, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Salvatore Camporeale, F. Edward Cranz, Elizabeth Cropper, Marc Fumaroli, Thomas M. Greene, Michael Ann Holly, J.G.A. Pocock, Charles Trinkaus, and Hayden White.

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Perspectives on Early and Modern Intellectual History bringstogether several disciplines and historical periods, and threegenerations of scholars to celebrate the pedagogical and scholarlycareer of Nancy Struever, who taught in the Humanities Center andDepartment of History at The John Hopkins University. Twenty-three essays reflect the breadth of disciplinary competence and the standardsof scholarly rigor that Stuever instilled in her students and demonstrates in her scholarship. The book is organized around threedivisional areas of inquiry: Renaissance Humanism, Histories of Art, andRhetorics, Philosophies, and Histories. The first part includes studieson Shakespeare and Ariosto; essays on Machiavelli, Caterina da Siena,and Lorenzo Valla; and Manetti on the library of Nicholas V. The sectionon histories of art contains contributions on L.B. Alberti, on earlymodern spectacle and the performance of images, and on rhetoric and art.The third section continues with discussions of rhetoric, history, andliterature from a more theoretical viewpoint. The book concludes with a bibliography of Stuever's works. Authors include: Marvin Becker,Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Salvatore Camporeale, F. Edward Cranz,Elizabeth Cropper, Marc Fumaroli, Thomas M. Greene, Michael Ann Holly,J. G. A. Pocock, Charles Trinkaus, and Hayden White.JOSEPH MARINO is an Independent Scholar.MELINDA SCHLITT is Associate Professor in the Department of FineArts, Dickinson College; Joseph Marino is with Current Analysis inVirginia.

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