Moralia et OEuvres morales a la Renaissance

edited by Olivier Guerrier

Book cover: Moralia et OEuvres morales a la Renaissance

Extent: 336 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy

Series: Rencontres

Series volume number: 236, 61

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(June 2023)

ISBN: 9782406089346

8.62 x 5.94 inches

Price: $49.00

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Hardback (Published)

(June 2023)

ISBN: 9782812457975

8.62 x 5.94 inches

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The texts in this collection analyze the reception of Plutarch’s Moralia in sixteenth-century Europe. They reveal how ideas of Plutarch as “moralist” developed during this period, beyond the image of the debonair thinker and relaxed compiler that was traditionally popular.

Olivier Guerrier est professeur de langue et littérature françaises de la Renaissance à l’université Toulouse – Jean-Jaurès, membre de l’Institut universitaire de France et de l’Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres de Toulouse. Il est spécialiste de Montaigne, et plus largement de la prose de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle, ainsi que de la réception moderne de Plutarque.

  • Edited by Olivier Guerrier