Description: Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, 'transformation', to the study of Renaissance humanism. The new theory stresses the active role played by the later culture in receiving and interpreting the classical past, with
Brief description: P. Baker and J. Helmrath, Humobldt University, Berlin, Germany; C. Kallendorf, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
Review Quotes:
"Beyond Reception is an interesting volume that contains some outstanding contributions. [...] Despite the range of the topics covered, several of the chapters are in dialogue with each other and the theoretical views outlined by the editors in the introduction are articulated in various ways throughout the volume, offering both a review of the development of scholarship within Renaissance studies, as well as a prospectus of the shape of things to come."
Carl O'Brien in: BMCR 2019.10.31