In:
Renaissance Quarterly, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 76, No. 4 ( 2023), p. 1303-1339
Abstract:
This article aims to reopen discussion of the Renaissance ars historica, a genre that has garnered little attention in modern scholarship. It does so by using a set of computational tools to measure the quantitative occurrence of terms related to artistry and cognition in Johann Wolff's collection of historical-method texts entitled “Artis Historicae Penus” (1579). Like the period's historical writing, which amalgamated aesthetics and historiography, the Renaissance artes historicae belonged to a historiographical paradigm in which the skillful construction of discourse went hand in hand with the search for historical truth. The title of Wolff's anthology accordingly draws an overt connection between the concepts of “ars” and “historia,” yet what did sixteenth-century theorists mean by “art”?
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0034-4338
,
1935-0236
DOI:
10.1017/rqx.2023.541
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2023
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1493220-9
detail.hit.zdb_id:
203782-8
SSG:
8
SSG:
7,12
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