Peter Burke

The Italian Renaissance (eBook, ePUB)

Culture and Society in Italy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned with not only the finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and others, but also with the social background, patterns of recruitment and means of subsistence of this 'cultural elite'. New to this edition is a fully revised introduction focusing on what Burke terms 'the domestic turn' in Renaissance studies and discussing the relation of the Renaissance to global trends. He thus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance, and to our comprehension of the complex relations between culture and society. This thoroughly revised and updated third edition is richly illustrated throughout. It will have a wide appeal among historians, sociologists and anyone interested in one of the most creative periods of European history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745679679
• Artikelnr.: 40180376

Autorenporträt

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations vii Introduction 1 The Theme 1 The Approach 4 A Revised
Edition 8 Part I The Problem 1 The Arts in Renaissance Italy 17 2 The
Historians: The Discovery of Social and Cultural History 32 Part II The
Arts in their Milieu 3 Artists and Writers 47 Recruitment 47 Training 56
The Organization of the Arts 67 The Status of the Arts 80 Artists as Social
Deviants 88 4 Patrons and Clients 94 Who are the Patrons? 95 Patrons v.
Artists 107 Architecture, Music and Literature 118 The Rise of the Market
125 5 The Uses of Works of Art 132 Magic and Religion 133 Politics 138 The
Private Sphere 148 Art for Pleasure 151 6 Taste 152 The Visual Arts 153
Music 161 Literature 164 Varieties of Taste 166 7 Iconography 171 Part III
The Wider Society 8 Worldviews: Some Dominant Traits 187 Views of the
Cosmos 188 Views of Society 198 Views of Man 203 Towards the Mechanization
of the World Picture 211 9 The Social Framework 215 Religious Organization
215 Political Organization 220 The Social Structure 228 The Economy 234 10
Cultural and Social Change 241 Generations 242 Structural Changes 249 11
Comparisons and Conclusions 255 The Netherlands 256 Japan 259 Appendix: The
Creative Elite 264 References and Bibliography 266 Index 314