But neither viewpoint helps to explain the fact that one of the greatest forward-strides occurred about the year 1400. To be sure, the long accepted vievv that the emergence of Renaissance culture stood in close relationship to the rise of a new civic, or bourgeois, society has proved fruitful in many fields of Renaissance research and equally useful has been the knowledge that the late Renaissance was molded by a new courtly society, first in the Italy of the signories and principates, and later in the great European monarchies of the sixteenth century. HE method of interpreting great turning-points in the history of thought against their social or political background has not yet rendered its full service in the study of the Italian Renaissance. On his 87 th birthday, November I I, 1954, in gratitude Walter Goetz my teacher and friend who introduced me to the Renaissance and taught me that history should be a study of both politics and culture Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press at Princeton, New Jersey PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESSĬopyright, 1955, by Princeton University Press London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press L. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny By HANS BARON RESEARCH FELLOW AND BIBLIOGRAPHER THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, CHICAGO
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