{"product_id":"9781350497634","title":"Humanism and the Bible in the Poetry of Benito Arias Montano","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHumanism and the Bible in the Poetry of Benito Arias Montano\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaria Czepiel | Gesine Manuwald | Stephen Harrison | William M. Barton | Bobby Xinyue\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeign Language Study \/ Latin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open-access book fills a gap in our understanding of the religious poetry of sixteenth-century Spain by arguing for a new significance to the poetry of one of its central figures. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Latin poetry of cleric, scholar, librarian and political advisor Benito Arias Montano escaped censorship inspired by the 1559 Valdés Index, and so provides a unique window into the development of religious poetry in the late sixteenth century between Renaissance biblical paraphrase and the advent of Baroque religious poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Arias Montano was a true Renaissance polymath, learned in disciplines ranging from philology to natural philosophy, his interest in emerging humanist disciplines had to be balanced with his convictions that the Bible was the only source of true knowledge. Part One of this study presents an overview of his work and compares this with other religious poets writing across Europe. Czepiel argues that this scholar, a Spanish Catholic of the sixteenth century, is an early exponent of a European trend which sought to apply an encyclopaedic range of humanist disciplines to the study of the Bible, something which was previously attributed to the later seventeenth-century Protestant Republic of Letters. Part Two comprises case studies of particular scholarly disciplines within Arias Montano's poetry, including the study of Classical texts, Hebraist studies, historiography and political theory, and biblical geography and architecture. In each case, Czepiel argues for the poetry betraying a clear anxiety about the limitations and proper use of humanist scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaria Czepiel\u003c\/b\u003e is Stipendiary Lecturer in Spanish at Brasenose and Balliol Colleges, University of Oxford, UK. She is also short-term fellow of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350497634\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51522034172044,"sku":"9781350497634","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_a2fa4545-501b-4442-acac-08df8fd4d62f.jpg?v=1784754119","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350497634","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}