Download or read book Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches written by Franz Posset and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the intellectual world of “progressive” monks on the eve of the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Biographical sketches of three Benedictines and three Cistercians vicariously represent the lives and works of humanists in cloisters (Klosterhumanismus).