Carol Quillen
Biographic Data
| ID | 267423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Quillen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Quillen |
| SIGNATURE | QUILLEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Uses of the Past in Quattrocento Florence
Although Leonardo Bruni's Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum have long occupied a central place in the study of Italian Renaissance humanism, scholarly interpretations of them differ markedly. Such differences attest to the formal complexity of this text, the uncertainty about its date of composition, and the obvious contradictions between the arguments offered at different times by its main interlocutor. This essay first briefly describes the scho…
Erasmus and the Middle Ages
Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia
Renaissance Civic Humanism
"Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, edited by James Hankins." Canadian Journal of History, 37(2), pp. 335–336
Reply to Chow and Nussbaum
Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human
Crossing the Line
This essay focuses on the relationship within western humanism between attitudes toward textual interpretation and views of the human self in an attempt to unsettle the dichotomy between humanist and antihumanist approaches to the past. It has three main parts. First, it uses Umberto Eco's recent reflections on the limits of interpretation to explore current debates about the aims of interpretation. In particular, it asks what it means to frame t…
A Tradition Invented
You wrote one time-I forget when but I remember the incident-that you had been seriously ill but that you had been delivered by the grace of God and the work of doctors. I then responded-this I remember-that I was very shocked by the paths through which that vulgar error had arisen in such a lofty mind; for God did all things and your noble nature. Doctors did nothing nor could they have, except what a chattering dialectician can do, one aboundin…
Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human
A Tradition Invented
You wrote one time-I forget when but I remember the incident-that you had been seriously ill but that you had been delivered by the grace of God and the work of doctors. I then responded-this I remember-that I was very shocked by the paths through which that vulgar error had arisen in such a lofty mind; for God did all things and your noble nature. Doctors did nothing nor could they have, except what a chattering dialectician can do, one aboundin…
A Tradition Invented
You wrote one time-I forget when but I remember the incident-that you had been seriously ill but that you had been delivered by the grace of God and the work of doctors. I then responded-this I remember-that I was very shocked by the paths through which that vulgar error had arisen in such a lofty mind; for God did all things and your noble nature. Doctors did nothing nor could they have, except what a chattering dialectician can do, one aboundin…
Crossing the Line
This essay focuses on the relationship within western humanism between attitudes toward textual interpretation and views of the human self in an attempt to unsettle the dichotomy between humanist and antihumanist approaches to the past. It has three main parts. First, it uses Umberto Eco's recent reflections on the limits of interpretation to explore current debates about the aims of interpretation. In particular, it asks what it means to frame t…
Reply to Chow and Nussbaum
Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human
Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia
Renaissance Civic Humanism
"Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, edited by James Hankins." Canadian Journal of History, 37(2), pp. 335–336
Erasmus and the Middle Ages
The Uses of the Past in Quattrocento Florence
Although Leonardo Bruni's Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum have long occupied a central place in the study of Italian Renaissance humanism, scholarly interpretations of them differ markedly. Such differences attest to the formal complexity of this text, the uncertainty about its date of composition, and the obvious contradictions between the arguments offered at different times by its main interlocutor. This essay first briefly describes the scho…
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