A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470751619
• Artikelnr.: 38214456

Autorenporträt

Guido Ruggiero is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Miami. His previous publications include Binding Passions: Tales of Magic Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993), The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985), and Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (1980). He has also edited two series of books: Studies in the History of Sexuality and Selections from Quaderni Storici.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm 1 Guido Rumiero PART I THE COURSE of RENAISSANCEE EVENTS 21 1 The Italian Renaissance 23 Gene Brucker 2 The European Renaissance 39 Randolph Starn 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East 55 Linda T. Darling 4 The Renaissance World from the West 70 Matthew Restall 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance 88 Peter Burke PART 11 THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER 105 6 Governments and Bureaucracies 107 Edward Muir 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe 124 James R. Farr 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model 139 Gregory Hanlon 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 156 Robert Muchembled 10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World 173 Joanne M. Feeraro 11 Gender 188 Elissa B. Weaver 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism 208 John Jeffiies Martin PART I11 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WORLDS 225 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes 227 Matthew Ester 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes 243 James S. Amelang 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy 259 Karl Appuhn 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy 279 John A. Marino PART IV CULTURAL WORLDS 297 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World 299 David C. Gentilcore 18 High Culture 316 Ingrid D. Rowland 19 Religious Cultures 333 R. Po-chia Hsia 20 Art 349 Loren Partridge 21 Literature 366 James Grantham Turner 22 Political Ideas 384 John M. Najemy 23 The Scientific Renaissance 403 William Eamon PART V ANTI-WORLDS 425 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger 427 Mary Lindemann 25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age 444 Linda Woodbridge 26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World 460 Thomas F. Arnold 27 Witchcraft and Magic 475 Guido Ruggiero 28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance 491 Ian Frederick Moulton Consolidated Bibliography 506 Index 543

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Part I: The Course of Renaissance Events.

Part II: The Worlds and Ways of Power.

Part III: Social and Economic Worlds.

Part IV: Cultural Worlds.

Part V: Anti-Worlds.

Series.

Rezensionen

"This volume would be a useful tool in an academic libraryproviding students of the period with a valuable source of bothtraditional and new thought on the Renaissance world. The essaysare involved and need to be considered in some detail to fullyappreciate the scholarly thought. Perhaps most useful as astepping-stone to further study, it is an excellent volume thatdeserves shelf space in all non-specialist academic libraries andlibraries that serve history lovers." Louise Ellis-Barrett,Assistant Librarian, Dulwich College, London

"This companion sets new agendas for research and explores somerefreshing ways of thinking about the Renaissance. Contributorsinclude scholars from many disciplines. Recommended for scholars,researchers, upper-division under-graduates and graduates students"Choice

"This most impressive volume deserves considerable praise. Theeditor, in his helpful and wide-ranging introduction, ensures afascinating and valuable volume." Journal of EuropeanStudies

"This Companion (with notes, and a rich compositebibliography) is strongest on social history and literature, aswell as for historical insights and literary merits" HistoryToday

"The articles are not simply factual summaries: they all havetheir own arguments, and many of them suggest places where thepresent state of knowledge is inadequate, so that the book is richin suggestions for further research.... Ruggiero asks his readersto "applaud if you have enjoyed our performance"; yes, it isgreatly enjoyable." John Considine, University ofAlberta