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In 1429, the humanist Poggio Bracciolini wrote breathlessly to his friend Niccolò Niccoli to report that Nicholas of Cusa (1401-64) had discovered twelve lost comedies of Plautus. Poggio saw a fellow manuscript hunter in the young German. And yet Cusanus-canon lawyer, philosopher, theologian, and eventually cardinal-can hardly be called a humanist, and Plautus's plays seem to have had no significance for him. Poggio's excitement illustrates the eagerness of Cusanus's contemporaries to claim him for their circle, to label him as a champion-or adversary-of their cause. Even today, scholars from diverse fields can see their inquiries reflected in his work. That he is able to offer such a multifaceted mirror has to do with the extraordinary breadth of his interests, the richness of his thought, and the tensions in his thinking as it evolved. This collection of eight historical studies and twelve philosophical and theological essays, offered in tribute to Gerald Christianson, professor emeritus of church history at the United (formerly Gettysburg) Lutheran Seminary, succeeds in embracing this multitude of Cusanus. The essays consider a range of his interests and his context, without att

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Author

Maarten Halff

Publisher

Renaissance Society of America; Cambridge University Press; University of Chicago Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 0034-4338)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)