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Record Nr.

UNINA9910840611703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [2002]

ISBN

1-4051-6576-6

1-281-32242-3

1-78034-104-0

9786611322427

0-470-75162-2

0-470-75161-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (578 pages)

Collana

Blackwell companions to history

Disciplina

940.21

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [506]-542) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A COMPANKION TO THE WORLDS OF THE RENAISSANCE; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm; Part I The Course of Renaissance Events; 1 The Italian Renaissance; 2 The European Renaissance; 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East; 4 The Renaissance World from the West; 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance; Part II The Worlds and Ways of Power; 6 Governments and Bureaucracies; 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe; 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model; 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility



10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World11 Gender; 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism; Part III Social and Economic Worlds; 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes; 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes; 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy; 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy; Part IV Cultural Worlds; 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World; 18 High Culture; 19 Religious Cultures; 20 Art; 21 Literature; 22 Political Ideas; 23 The Scientific Renaissance; Part V Anti-Worlds; 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger

25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World; 27 Witchcraft and Magic; 28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance; Consolidated Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.