The Preacher's Agenda
A Dominican versus the Italian Renaissance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970126 |
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| Authors | Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh Debby (0000-0003-1791-491X, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 462-476 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2015.1041818 |
| OpenAlex | W1879992236 |
| Language | EN |
This article reviews the cultural agenda of the celebrated Dominican preacher Giovanni Dominici (1356–1419) in fifteenth-century Florence. Central issues discussed include Dominici’s educational programme, his cultural propaganda, his interest in the visual arts and his opposition to the study of the classics, as expressed in his public popular preaching. The close examination of his cultural agenda discloses Dominici as the most extreme opponent of humanist studies
Adversary · Art · Art history · Fifteenth · Humanism · Political science · Sociology · The arts · The Renaissance · Classics · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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