From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe by Anthony Grafton
Published 1986 · 95,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe to read?
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe scores 63 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 65 out of 100
- Scholarly historical vocabulary; Latin quotation with translation.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Revisionist argument operates between historical evidence and theoretical claims about ideology.
- Information density: 76 out of 100
- Dense with archival detail and sustained argument.
- Narrative indirection: 15 out of 100
- Direct polemical argument deployed through case studies.
- Symbolic density: 100 out of 100
- Analytical historical register.
- Ironic distance: 20 out of 100
- The revisionist project is itself an ironic reversal of humanist self-presentation.
- Resolution withholding: 15 out of 100
- The argument reaches clear conclusions; some historical questions remain open.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Progresses chronologically through case studies organized by figure and institution.
How From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe is regarded
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe holds a literary regard score of 83 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.