Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany

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This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in the humanists' own arguments or the many modern chronicles. Eschewing neat but misleading dichotomies, the author describes the German humanists' crit

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"A major book that is of vital importance for understanding the intellectual milieu from which the Reformation emerged."--Guy Fitch Lytle, University of Texas

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James H. Overfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont, Burlington.