“THE CENTURY OF HUMANISM” IN FRANCE AND GERMANY: POLITICAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSION
The purpose of the presented publication is to show interference of the culture of Renaissance and imperouslypolitical sphere in France and Germany, referring to the materials of Russian and intrenational historiography. The contribution of the feudal elite and especially of the governors of the specified countries to the formation of the Renaissance there is analyzed (French king, German emperor and German territorial dukes). The political problems which were solved by the authority by means of new forms of architecture and literature, specificity of court culture of the epoch, the Renaissance type of the person of some representatives of the nobility are considered. The theoretical importance of the analysis of the historiographic material in the culture of the Renaissance and the humanism presented from positions of “new political history” consists in the revision of the estimation of the cultural role of the European elites of the Middle Ages and an early modern. From the practical side materials of the publication can be used in teaching of such disciplines as “History of Middle Ages”, “Cultural studies (Culturology)”, “World art”; in preparation of methodical publications according to disciplines, and also in qualifying and research works on history of the Middle Ages and early New time.
Keywords: France, Germany, the culture of the Renaissance, the humanism, the ruling elite, the Renaissance type of the person
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Issue: 9, 2012
Pages: 75 — 80
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