Humanism and Renaissance civilization / Charles G. Nauert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scholastic doctors and humanist challengers. The clash of humanists and scholastics : an approach to pre-Reformation controversies -- Humanist infiltration into the academic world : some studies of northern universities -- Humanism as method : roots of conflict with the scholastics -- The humanist challenge to medieval German culture -- Peter of Ravenna and the "obscure men" of Cologne : a case of pre-Reformation controversy -- Graf Hermann von Neuenahr and the limits of humanism in Cologne -- Humanists, scholastics, and the struggle to reform the University of Cologne, 1523-1525 -- Erasmus and the conflict over humanism. "A remarkably supercilious and touchy lot" : Erasmus on the scholastic theologians -- "The articular disease" : Erasmus' charges that the theologians have let the church down -- "Christian humanism" in Renaissance culture. Rethinking "Christian humanism" -- Marguerite, Lef�evre d'�Etaples, and the growth of Christian humanism in France -- Science in the Renaissance : natural and occult. Humanists, scientists, and Pliny : changing approaches to a classical author -- Magic and skepticism in Agrippa's thought -- Agrippa in Renaissance Italy : the esoteric tradition -- Directions in Renaissance intellectual life. The mind.