Philosophy: History of Philosophy: Renaissance

Erasmus, Thomas More and their historical context.

Discusses many aspects of the Renaissance thought, from Platonism to Galileo. From the Radical Academy.

Brief article on the transition between middle ages and modernity.

A short summary of the era and the central questions.

A 2001 article by Paul Richard Blum, from the journal Minerva. Considers the problems which the Renaissance philosophers of nature attempted to solve.

A discussion of the core idea in humanistic philosophy, by Charles Trinkaus. From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

A few of the most important thinkers of the period.

Aims to foster research and teaching in the field, to organize scholarly meetings and conferences, to publish a newsletter and a monograph series, and to cooperate with other learned societies in projects of common interest.

Essays and assorted resources on the intellectual history of this period.

An encyclopedia entry.