Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

by Ada Palmer
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/10/2014

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Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.

ISBN:
9780674967083
9780674967083
Category:
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-10-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Ada Palmer

Ada Palmer is an author, historian and composer. She did her PhD at Harvard, teaches History at the University of Chicago, blogs at ExUrbe.com, composes close harmony folk music and performs with the a capella group Sassafrass.

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