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Vittorino da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators
W. H. Woodward
‘A book that has remained for almost seventy years the fundamental study of early Renaissance educational
theory and practice.’
From the foreword by Eugene F. Rice Jr.
(RSART 5) 264 pp / 6 x 9 / 1996
Paper 978-0-8020-7157-6 $23.95 (£16.99)
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance
Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture
Debora Kuller Shuger
Debora Kuller Shuger examines orthodox, rather than subversive, methods of thought in the English
Renaissance. Instead of finding a monolithic, unified body of thought, she reveals a remarkably nonuniform
‘orthodox’ ideology containing a wide range of views. Shuger’s approach also re-examines and relegitimizes
the investigation of the connections between religion and literature. First published in 1990,
Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance presaged an expanding and progressively more popular mode
of inquiry in English Renaissance scholarship.
(RSART 6) 284 pp / 6 x 9 / 1997
Paper 978-0-8020-8047-9 $25.95 (£18.99)
The Vespasiano Memoirs
Lives of Illustrious Men of the XVth Century
Vespasiano da Bisticci
Translated by William George and Emily Waters
Introduction by Myron P. Gilmore
Vespasiano da Bisticci (b. 1421) was a Florentine bookseller known as the most celebrated dealer of books
and manuscripts of his generation. His memoirs are a valuable resource in the history of politics, warfare and
intellectual history, written from the perspective of an intelligent man who was able to watch and comment
on the events of his age from a privileged position.
(RSART 7) 476 pp / 6 x 9 / 1997
Paper 978-0-8020-7968-8 $30.95 (£21.99)
The Society of Renaissance Florence
A Documentary Study
Edited by Gene Brucker
First published in 1971, this book is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating
from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
‘Gene A. Brucker gives us a compelling as well as factually based idea of Renaissance Florence in the
translated documents assembled in The Society of Renaissance Florence ... Everyone wishing more solid
information on how life was lived in Renaissance Florence will find more than a little of fresh and essential
information in this highly reliable book.’
Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance
(RSART 8) 282 pp / 6 x 9 / 1998
Paper 978-0-8020-8079-0 $26.95 (£18.99)
On Assistance to the Poor
Juan Luis Vives
Translated with an introduction and commentary by Alice Tobriner, SNJM
The urban problems of sixteenth-century Bruges are very familiar to the modern reader: poverty, overcrowding,
crime, the problems of the mentally ill, and the issue of the responsibility of government for the
care of the poor. Published in 1526, On Assistance to the Poor was Vives’s effort to bring these questions
to the attention of the City Council of Bruges, and have them addressed by local government.
(RSART 9) 71 pp / 6 x 9 / 1999
Paper 978-0-8020-8289-3 $18.95 (£13.99)
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