Using an interdisciplinary approach, John Jeffries Martin collects thirty four illustrated essays from leading field scholars, and presents a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, and the foundations this complex era laid for the modern world.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, John Jeffries Martin collects thirty four illustrated essays from leading field scholars, and presents a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, and the foundations this complex era laid for the modern world.
John Jeffries Martin is Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. He is editor of The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1: Three Preludes 1. Rome at the Center of a Civilization2. Framing and Mirroring the World3. The Black Death, Tragedy, and TransformationPart 2: A World in Motion 4. The Manufacture and Movement of Goods5. Cities, Towns, and New Forms of Culture6. European Expansion and a New Order of Knowledge7. The Invention of Europe8. HumanityPart 3: The Movement of Ideas 9. The Circulation of Knowledge10. Virgil and Homer in Poland11. Montaigne in Italy12. 'Shared Studies Foster Friendship': Humanism and History in Spain Katherine13. Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More: Parallel LivesPart 4: The Circulation of Power 14. Courts, Art, and Power15. An Imperial Renaissance16. Renaissance Triumphalism in Art17. The Ottoman Empire18. Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance19. Mothers and Children20. The Renaissance Goes Up in SmokePart 5: Making Identities 21. Human Exceptionalism22. Worthy of Faith? Authors and Readers in Early Modernity23. The Renaissance Portrait: From Resemblance to Representation24. Objects and Identity: Antonio de'Medici and the Casino at San Marco in Florence25. Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption26. Shakespeare's Dream of RetirementPart 6: Beliefs and Reforms 27.Speaking Books, Moving Images28. Religious Minorities29. Humanism and the Dream of Christian Unity30. Christian Reform and its Discontents31. A Tale of Two Tribunals32. Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil33. Toward a Sacramental PoeticsPart 7: A New Order of Knowledge 34. The Sun at the Center of the World
Part 1: Three Preludes 1. Rome at the Center of a Civilization2. Framing and Mirroring the World3. The Black Death, Tragedy, and TransformationPart 2: A World in Motion 4. The Manufacture and Movement of Goods5. Cities, Towns, and New Forms of Culture6. European Expansion and a New Order of Knowledge7. The Invention of Europe8. HumanityPart 3: The Movement of Ideas 9. The Circulation of Knowledge10. Virgil and Homer in Poland11. Montaigne in Italy12. 'Shared Studies Foster Friendship': Humanism and History in Spain Katherine13. Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More: Parallel LivesPart 4: The Circulation of Power 14. Courts, Art, and Power15. An Imperial Renaissance16. Renaissance Triumphalism in Art17. The Ottoman Empire18. Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance19. Mothers and Children20. The Renaissance Goes Up in SmokePart 5: Making Identities 21. Human Exceptionalism22. Worthy of Faith? Authors and Readers in Early Modernity23. The Renaissance Portrait: From Resemblance to Representation24. Objects and Identity: Antonio de'Medici and the Casino at San Marco in Florence25. Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption26. Shakespeare's Dream of RetirementPart 6: Beliefs and Reforms 27.Speaking Books, Moving Images28. Religious Minorities29. Humanism and the Dream of Christian Unity30. Christian Reform and its Discontents31. A Tale of Two Tribunals32. Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil33. Toward a Sacramental PoeticsPart 7: A New Order of Knowledge 34. The Sun at the Center of the World
Rezensionen
"This book is one among a series (13 and counting) of compendious studies of periods or cultures published by Routledge, each designed to tell a very large story through a number of specifically detailed studies. ... It is brought into focus by scholars, most very well known, who provide exemplary detailed accounts of economic, intellectual, political, and religious transformations that make clear this period's claim as one of innovation and transformation. ... " -- CHOICE September 2008 Vol. 46 (A. Rabil, Jr., SUNY College at Old Westbury)
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