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... Renaissance merely through scholarly and bookish sources , through an individual ideological search and " intellec- tual effort . " He is right in stating that the Renaissance was pre- pared by the Middle Ages , and especially by the ...
... Renaissance merely through scholarly and bookish sources , through an individual ideological search and " intellec- tual effort . " He is right in stating that the Renaissance was pre- pared by the Middle Ages , and especially by the ...
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... Renaissance was based on antique sources . However , in the French Renaissance of the sixteenth cen- tury the leading role did not belong to the " classical " tradition of antiquity , such as epics and tragedy , nor to the strict genre ...
... Renaissance was based on antique sources . However , in the French Renaissance of the sixteenth cen- tury the leading role did not belong to the " classical " tradition of antiquity , such as epics and tragedy , nor to the strict genre ...
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... Renaissance the feudal structure was nearing its end , but its ideological domination of the human mind was still extremely powerful . Where could the Renaissance find support in the struggle against the official culture of the Middle ...
... Renaissance the feudal structure was nearing its end , but its ideological domination of the human mind was still extremely powerful . Where could the Renaissance find support in the struggle against the official culture of the Middle ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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