Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists. By SUSANNE SAYGIN. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 105) Leiden: Brill. 2002. xiv+ 307 pp. 83 [euro]. ISBN 90-04-12015-7.

Do not be misled by the title: this monograph has significance for many scholars beyond the happy few who are historians of the studia humanitatis in fifteenth-century England. Certainly, the longest section reinterprets the career, political and literary, of the posthumously 'Good Duke' (spelling his name not--as any Oxford doctor should--Humfrey, as in Library, but instead Humphrey, as in Bogart). In the two sections that follow, however, Susanne Saygin...

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