Background
Horowitz, Maryanne Cline was born on June 29, 1945 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of James Edward and Ethel E. Cline.
( In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Marya...)
In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement. The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."
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Horowitz, Maryanne Cline was born on June 29, 1945 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of James Edward and Ethel E. Cline.
AB cum laude, Brown University, 1965. Master of Arts in Teaching, Harvard University, 1966. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1970.
Instructor of government Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1970—1971, research associate science, technical and society program, 1971—1973. Assistant professor politics Ithaca College, 1972—1973. Research associate in theology and church history Divinity School Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979—1980.
Reader Warburg Institute and Institute History Research University London, 1997. Research associate University of California at Los Angeles, since 1988. Assistant professor history Occidental College, 1973—1989, associate professor history, 1980—1988, professor history, since 1988.
Member advanced placement history design committee Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 1995—1997. Founder, chair women's studies Occidental College, 1977—1979, 1982—1985, chair history department, 1988—1991, Title IX officer, since 1993. Visiting professor history University of California at Los Angeles, 1992, visiting scholar Center for Study of Women, 2003—2004.
( In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Marya...)
Member of College Art Association, 16th Century Studies Conference (council 1977-1980, Nancy L. Roelker prize committee 2002), Renaissance Conference Southern California (vice president 1982-1983, president 1983-1985, program chair national conference 1985, executive editorial advisory board 1985-1988), International Society Intellectual History, American History Association (steering committee 1979-1980, coordinating committee for women in history profession), Renaissance Society of America (nominating committee 1985-1986, executive board 1986-1998).
Married Ellis Horowitz, June 23, 1968. Children: Pipi R. Diamond, Edward G., Ira S.