This book examines Renaissance modes of interpretation as they arise in legal contexts, and relates them to modern debates about meaning and its determination. By placing legal hermeneutic theories in ...

He also examines the conditions in which Renaissance intellectuals operated in an era before ... as the love of wisdom rather than a defined discipline - as elements in the search for meaning and ...

- the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries ...