Inventing the Renaissance Myths of a Golden Age
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Bloomsbury Academic
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Produktdetails
Verkaufsrang
14290
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
13.02.2025
Abbildungen
35 integrated bw illustrations
Verlag
Bloomsbury AcademicSeitenzahl
768
Maße (L/B/H)
24,2/16,6/5,7 cm
Gewicht
978 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-03-591012-0
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating. Her witty and irreverent journey through the fantasies historians have constructed about the period show how its legend derives more from later centuries' mythmaking than from the often grim reality of the period itself. She examines its defining figures and movements: the enduring legacy of Niccolò Machiavelli, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of the Medici and fall of the Borgias, the astonishing artistic achievements of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Cellini, the impact of the Inquisition and the expansion of secular Humanism. Palmer also explores the ties between culture and money: books, for example, could cost as much as grand houses, so the period's innovative thinkers could only thrive with the help of the super-rich. She offers fifteen provocative and entertaining character portraits of Renaissance men and women, some famous, some obscure, whose intersecting lives show how the real Renaissance was more unexpected, more international and, above all, more desperate than its golden reputation suggests.
Drawing on her popular blogs and writing with her characteristic energy and wit, Palmer presents the Renaissance as we have never seen it before. Colloquial, funny and brilliant, you would never expect a work of deep scholarship to make you alternately laugh and cry.
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