04324nam 2200805I 450 991083031170332120210209193857.01-4051-6576-61-281-32242-31-78034-104-097866113224270-470-75162-20-470-75161-4(CKB)1000000000404870(EBL)350896(OCoLC)192098042(SSID)ssj0000292160(PQKBManifestationID)11213973(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292160(PQKBWorkID)10255053(PQKB)11084751(MiAaPQ)EBC350896(MiAaPQ)EBC4917420(Au-PeEL)EBL4917420(CaONFJC)MIL132242(OCoLC)1024271296(PPN)187345880(EXLCZ)99100000000040487020010821d2002 uy 0enguruz|---|uuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA companion to the worlds of the Renaissance /edited by Guido Ruggiero1st ed.Malden, MA :Blackwell Publishers,[2002]1 online resource (578 pages)Blackwell companions to historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-631-21524-7 1-4051-5783-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [506]-542) and index.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 Civility10 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 Hunger25 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; IndexThis 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.Blackwell companions to history.RenaissanceRenaissanceItalyPower (Social sciences)ItalyPower (Social sciences)EuropeEuropeEconomic conditions16th centuryItalyCivilization1268-1559EuropeSocial conditions16th centuryItalySocial conditions1268-1559ItalyIntellectual life1268-1559Renaissance.RenaissancePower (Social sciences)Power (Social sciences)940.21Ruggiero Guido1944-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830311703321A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance2246346UNINA