How Long to Read Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 4 minutes to read Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe by Catherine Atkinson

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Polydore Vergil of Urbino (ca.1470-1555) fired his readers' imagination with his encyclopaedic book On the inventors of all things ( De inventoribus rerum 1499). His account of the manifold origins of sciences, crafts and social institutions is a praise of man's inventive genius and a prototypical cultural history. Polydorus was a household name for several centuries. Erasmus envied his friend the book's success, Rabelais heaped scorn on it, Catholic censors put it on the index, while Protestants were fascinated with that papist work. In this first in-depth study of the Renaissance 'bestseller', Catherine Atkinson examines not only the Italian humanist's bona fide (mostly ancient) inventors, in books I-III, she enquires into the neglected and misunderstood, yet equally important, books IV-VIII (1521). This early modern text, written on the eve of the Reformation, is devoted to the highly controversial topic of the 'invention' of ecclesiastical institutions. The priest and humanist Vergil, who during his 50 years in England rose in the church hierarchy, is shown to be an acute observer of contemporary religious practice. He employs the inventor question (who was the first to do this?) as an instrument of historiography and by comparing medieval church rites and institutions with religious practice of antiquity, implicitly questions the singularity of the Christian church.

How long is Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe?

Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe by Catherine Atkinson is 356 pages long, and a total of 91,136 words.

This makes it 120% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 18 minutes to read Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe aloud.

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Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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