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A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance
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This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.:.; Overtu...
This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.:.; Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive.; Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective.; Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite.; Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Guido Ruggiero
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 561 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780631215240, 0631215247, 9780470751619, 0470751614, 9780470751626, 0470751622, 1405157836
- OCLC
- ocn184983345
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-542) and index.
- The Italian Renaissance / Gene Brucker -- The European Renaissance / Randolph Starn -- The Renaissance and the Middle East / Linda T. Darling -- The Renaissance world from the West / Matthew Restall -- The historical geography of the Renaissance / Peter Burke -- Governments and bureaucracies / Edward Muir -- Honor, law and custom in Renaissance Europe / James R. Farr -- Violence and its control in the late Renaissance / Gregory Hanlon -- Manners, courts and civility / Robert Muchembled -- Family and clan in the Renaissance world / Joanne M. Ferraro -- Gender / Elissa B. Weaver -- The myth of Renaissance individualism / John Jeffries Martin -- Social hierarchies : the upper classes / Matthew Vester -- Social hierarchies : the lower classes / James S. Amelang -- Tools for the development of the European economy / Karl Appuhn -- Economic encounters and the first stages of a world economy / John A. Marino -- The subcultures of the Renaissance world / David C. Gentilcore -- High culture / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Religious cultures / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Art / Loren Partridge -- Literature / James Grantham Turner -- Political ideas / John M. Najemy -- The scientific Renaissance / William Eamon -- Plague, disease and hunger / Mary Lindemann -- Renaissance bogeymen / Linda Woodbridge -- Violence and warfare in the Renaissance world / Thomas F. Arnold -- Witchcraft and magic / Guido Ruggiero -- The illicit worlds of the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton
Subjects
- Renaissance.
- Renaissance -- Italy.
- Power (Social sciences) -- Italy.
- Power (Social sciences) -- Europe.
- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.
- Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559.
- Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
- Italy -- Social conditions -- 1268-1559.
- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.