A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance /
A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance /
edited by Guido Ruggiero.
- 1 online resource (xii, 561 pages).
- Blackwell companions to history .
- Blackwell companions to history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-542) and index.
The Italian Renaissance / Gene Brucker -- The European Renaissance / Randolph Starn -- The Renaissance and the Middle East / Linda T. Darling -- The Renaissance world from the West / Matthew Restall -- The historical geography of the Renaissance / Peter Burke -- Governments and bureaucracies / Edward Muir -- Honor, law and custom in Renaissance Europe / James R. Farr -- Violence and its control in the late Renaissance / Gregory Hanlon -- Manners, courts and civility / Robert Muchembled -- Family and clan in the Renaissance world / Joanne M. Ferraro -- Gender / Elissa B. Weaver -- The myth of Renaissance individualism / John Jeffries Martin -- Social hierarchies : the upper classes / Matthew Vester -- Social hierarchies : the lower classes / James S. Amelang -- Tools for the development of the European economy / Karl Appuhn -- Economic encounters and the first stages of a world economy / John A. Marino -- The subcultures of the Renaissance world / David C. Gentilcore -- High culture / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Religious cultures / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Art / Loren Partridge -- Literature / James Grantham Turner -- Political ideas / John M. Najemy -- The scientific Renaissance / William Eamon -- Plague, disease and hunger / Mary Lindemann -- Renaissance bogeymen / Linda Woodbridge -- Violence and warfare in the Renaissance world / Thomas F. Arnold -- Witchcraft and magic / Guido Ruggiero -- The illicit worlds of the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton.
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.
9780631215240 0631215247 9780470751619 0470751614
10.1002/9780470751626 doi
10.1002/9780470751626 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com E2C2F0B7-D8FD-4DE2-B390-1E2455F80C63 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
1268-1599
Renaissance.
Renaissance--Italy.
Power (Social sciences)--Italy.
Power (Social sciences)--Europe.
Civilization.
Economic history.
Intellectual life.
Power (Social sciences)
Renaissance.
Social conditions
Europe--Economic conditions--16th century.
Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.
Europe--Social conditions--16th century.
Italy--Social conditions--1268-1559.
Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.
Europe.
Italy.
Electronic books.
CB367 / .C65 2007eb
940.2/1
Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-542) and index.
The Italian Renaissance / Gene Brucker -- The European Renaissance / Randolph Starn -- The Renaissance and the Middle East / Linda T. Darling -- The Renaissance world from the West / Matthew Restall -- The historical geography of the Renaissance / Peter Burke -- Governments and bureaucracies / Edward Muir -- Honor, law and custom in Renaissance Europe / James R. Farr -- Violence and its control in the late Renaissance / Gregory Hanlon -- Manners, courts and civility / Robert Muchembled -- Family and clan in the Renaissance world / Joanne M. Ferraro -- Gender / Elissa B. Weaver -- The myth of Renaissance individualism / John Jeffries Martin -- Social hierarchies : the upper classes / Matthew Vester -- Social hierarchies : the lower classes / James S. Amelang -- Tools for the development of the European economy / Karl Appuhn -- Economic encounters and the first stages of a world economy / John A. Marino -- The subcultures of the Renaissance world / David C. Gentilcore -- High culture / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Religious cultures / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Art / Loren Partridge -- Literature / James Grantham Turner -- Political ideas / John M. Najemy -- The scientific Renaissance / William Eamon -- Plague, disease and hunger / Mary Lindemann -- Renaissance bogeymen / Linda Woodbridge -- Violence and warfare in the Renaissance world / Thomas F. Arnold -- Witchcraft and magic / Guido Ruggiero -- The illicit worlds of the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton.
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.
9780631215240 0631215247 9780470751619 0470751614
10.1002/9780470751626 doi
10.1002/9780470751626 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com E2C2F0B7-D8FD-4DE2-B390-1E2455F80C63 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
1268-1599
Renaissance.
Renaissance--Italy.
Power (Social sciences)--Italy.
Power (Social sciences)--Europe.
Civilization.
Economic history.
Intellectual life.
Power (Social sciences)
Renaissance.
Social conditions
Europe--Economic conditions--16th century.
Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.
Europe--Social conditions--16th century.
Italy--Social conditions--1268-1559.
Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.
Europe.
Italy.
Electronic books.
CB367 / .C65 2007eb
940.2/1