The bonds of humanity: Cicero’s legacies in European social and political thought, ca. 1100 – ca. 1550

Autore: Nederman, Cary J.
Titolo: The bonds of humanity: Cicero’s legacies in European social and political thought, ca. 1100 – ca. 1550
Editore: University Park Pennsylvania State University Press
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 2020
Parole chiave: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Recensione:

Nathanael Lambert, Parergon, Volume 38, Number 2, 2021, pp. 241-243 ; Catherine Keen, Speculum 97 (3):871-872 (2022)

Descrizione: In this book, Cary J. Nederman presents a persuasive counternarrative to the widely accepted belief in the dominance of Aristotelian thought. Surveying the work of a diverse range of thinkers from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, including John of Salisbury, Brunetto Latini, Marsiglio of Padua, Christine de Pizan, and Bartolomé de Las Casas, Nederman shows that these men and women inherited, deployed, and adapted key Ciceronian themes. He argues that the rise of scholastic Aristotelianism in the thirteenth century did not supplant but rather supplemented and bolstered Ciceronian ideas, and he identifies the character and limits of Ciceronianism that distinguish it from other schools of philosophy.
Sigla autore: Nederman 2020