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A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance


A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance


Blackwell Companions to European History 1. Aufl.

von: Guido Ruggiero

51,90 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9780470751619
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 576

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<p><b>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.</b></p> <ul> <li>Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive.</li> <li>Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective.</li> <li>Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite.</li> <li>Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm 1<br /><i>Guido Rumiero</i></p> <p><b>PART I THE COURSE of RENAISSANCEE EVENTS 21</b></p> <p>1 The Italian Renaissance 23<br /><i>Gene Brucker</i></p> <p>2 The European Renaissance 39<br /><i>Randolph Starn</i></p> <p>3 The Renaissance and the Middle East 55<br /><i>Linda T. Darling</i></p> <p>4 The Renaissance World from the West 70<br /><i>Matthew Restall</i></p> <p>5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance 88<br /><i>Peter Burke</i></p> <p><b>PART 11 THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER 105</b></p> <p>6 Governments and Bureaucracies 107<br /><i>Edward Muir</i></p> <p>7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe 124<br /><i>James R. Farr</i></p> <p>8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model 139<br /><i>Gregory Hanlon</i></p> <p>9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 156<br /><i>Robert Muchembled</i></p> <p>10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World 173<br /><i>Joanne M. Feeraro</i></p> <p>11 Gender 188<br /><i>Elissa B. Weaver</i></p> <p>12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism 208<br /><i>John Jeffiies Martin</i></p> <p><b>PART I11 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WORLDS 225</b></p> <p>13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes 227<br /><i>Matthew Ester</i></p> <p>14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes 243<br /><i>James S. Amelang</i></p> <p>15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy 259<br /><i>Karl Appuhn</i></p> <p>16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy 279<br /><i>John A. Marino</i></p> <p><b>PART IV CULTURAL WORLDS 297</b></p> <p>17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World 299<br /><i>David C. Gentilcore</i></p> <p>18 High Culture 316<br /><i>Ingrid D. Rowland</i></p> <p>19 Religious Cultures 333<br /><i>R. Po-chia Hsia</i></p> <p>20 Art 349<br /><i>Loren Partridge</i></p> <p>21 Literature 366<br /><i>James Grantham Turner</i></p> <p>22 Political Ideas 384<br /><i>John M. Najemy</i></p> <p>23 The Scientific Renaissance 403<br /><i>William Eamon</i></p> <p><b>PART V ANTI-WORLDS 425</b></p> <p>24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger 427<br /><i>Mary Lindemann</i></p> <p>25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age 444<br /><i>Linda Woodbridge</i></p> <p>26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World 460<br /><i>Thomas F. Arnold</i></p> <p>27 Witchcraft and Magic 475<br /><i>Guido Ruggiero</i></p> <p>28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance 491<br /><i>Ian Frederick Moulton</i></p> <p>Consolidated Bibliography 506</p> <p>Index 543</p>
"This volume would be a useful tool in an academic library providing students of the period with a valuable source of both traditional and new thought on the Renaissance world. The essays are involved and need to be considered in some detail to fully appreciate the scholarly thought. Perhaps most useful as a stepping-stone to further study, it is an excellent volume that deserves shelf space in all non-specialist academic libraries and libraries that serve history lovers." <i>Louise Ellis-Barrett, Assistant Librarian, Dulwich College, London <!--end--></i> <br /> <p>"This companion sets new agendas for research and explores some refreshing ways of thinking about the Renaissance. Contributors include scholars from many disciplines. Recommended for scholars, researchers, upper-division under-graduates and graduates students" <i>Choice</i><br /> </p> <p>"This most impressive volume deserves considerable praise. The editor, in his helpful and wide-ranging introduction, ensures a fascinating and valuable volume." <i>Journal of European Studies</i><br /> </p> <p>"This <i>Companion</i> (with notes, and a rich composite bibliography) is strongest on social history and literature, as well as for historical insights and literary merits" <i>History Today</i><br /> </p> <p>"The articles are not simply factual summaries: they all have their own arguments, and many of them suggest places where the present state of knowledge is inadequate, so that the book is rich in suggestions for further research.... Ruggiero asks his readers to "applaud if you have enjoyed our performance"; yes, it is greatly enjoyable." <i>John Considine, University of Alberta</i></p>
<b>Guido Ruggiero</b> is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Miami. His previous publications include <i>Binding Passions: Tales of Magic Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance</i> (1993), <i>The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice</i> (1985), and <i>Violence in Early Renaissance Venice </i>(1980). He has also edited two series of books: <i>Studies in the History of Sexuality and Selections from Quaderni Storici. </i>
The idea of the Renaissance as a period of European cultural triumph in which great men flourished has been largely demolished in the last fifty years. This provocative volume brings together some of the most exciting scholars who led this attack, to suggest different ways of thinking about the Renaissance and set new agendas for research.<br /> <p>The contributions focus on three major themes: transformative encounters between cultures, ancient and new, high and low, within Europe and beyond; fascination with all things Italian; and social realignment. In examining these themes, the contributors look at the Renaissance from a world perspective, illuminating the negative as well as the positive, and integrating considerations of gender, sex, violence, and non-elite culture. The vision of the Renaissance that emerges is one defined by a wide range of social, political, economic, and cultural developments rather than by the actions of a small cultural elite.</p>
"This volume would be a useful tool in an academic library providing students of the period with a valuable source of both traditional and new thought on the Renaissance world. The essays are involved and need to be considered in some detail to fully appreciate the scholarly thought. Perhaps most useful as a stepping-stone to further study, it is an excellent volume that deserves shelf space in all non-specialist academic libraries and libraries that serve history lovers." <i>Louise Ellis-Barrett, Assistant Librarian, Dulwich College, London <!--end--></i> <br /> <p>"This companion sets new agendas for research and explores some refreshing ways of thinking about the Renaissance. Contributors include scholars from many disciplines. Recommended for scholars, researchers, upper-division under-graduates and graduates students" <i>Choice</i><br /> </p> <p>"This most impressive volume deserves considerable praise. The editor, in his helpful and wide-ranging introduction, ensures a fascinating and valuable volume." <i>Journal of European Studies</i><br /> </p> <p>"This <i>Companion</i> (with notes, and a rich composite bibliography) is strongest on social history and literature, as well as for historical insights and literary merits" <i>History Today</i><br /> </p> <p>"The articles are not simply factual summaries: they all have their own arguments, and many of them suggest places where the present state of knowledge is inadequate, so that the book is rich in suggestions for further research.... Ruggiero asks his readers to "applaud if you have enjoyed our performance"; yes, it is greatly enjoyable." <i>John Considine, University of Alberta</i></p>

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