Contents > Vol 51, Issue 2

Special Issue: Humanism and Public Life
The 50th Anniversary volume

This volume publishes some of the papers presented at a year-long lecture series held at University of Washington by the Center for the Humanities. "The papers are concerned with humanism and its alliance with public life in antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This perspective incorporates the dominant trends in humanist thinking: eloquence (style) joined with moral philosophy (ethics). It considers the private aspect of humanism (scholarship, personal culture) and places the public aspect (politics) in the foreground"

--From C. Stephen Jaegar's introduction "Humanism and Public Life"

Articles
Author		Title
C. Stephen Jaeger		"Humanism and Public Life"
Lauro Martines		"The Protean Face of Renaissance Humanism"
James D. Tracy		"From Humanism to the Humanities: A Critique of Grafton and Jardine"
Janet Marion Martin		"Cicero's Jokes at the Court of Henry II of England: Roman Humor and the Princely Ideal"
Ronald G. Witt		"Civic Humanism and the Rebirth of the Ciceronian Oration"
Neal Wood		"Cicero and the Political Thought of the Early English Renaissance"
George Huppert		"Peter Ramus: The Humanist as Philosophe"
Richard Helgerson		"Writing Against Writing: Humanism and the Form of Coke's Institutes"
Elaine V. Beilin		"Writing Public Poetry: Humanism and the Woman Writer"