A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance
The idea of the Renaissance as a period of European cultural triumph in which great men flourished has been largely demolished since the 1950s. This volume brings together scholars who led this attack, to suggest different ways of thinking about the Renaissance and set new agendas for research.
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 561 pages ; 26 cm
9781405157834, 9780631215240, 1405157836, 0631215247
145759064
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