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A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance / edited by Guido Ruggiero.

Contributor(s): Ruggiero, Guido, 1944- [editor.] | Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell companions to historyPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xii, 561 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780631215240; 0631215247; 9780470751619; 0470751614Subject(s): Renaissance | Renaissance -- Italy | Power (Social sciences) -- Italy | Power (Social sciences) -- Europe | Europe -- Economic conditions -- 16th century | Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559 | Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century | Italy -- Social conditions -- 1268-1559 | Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 | Civilization | Economic history | Intellectual life | Power (Social sciences) | Renaissance | Social conditions | Europe | Italy | 1268-1599Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to the worlds of the Renaissance.DDC classification: 940.2/1 LOC classification: CB367 | .C65 2007ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-542) and index.

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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.

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