The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

ISBN-13: 9781108468152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 342 str.

Martin a. Ruehl

Opis

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

Recenzje

'The legacy of the late Georg G. Iggers graces The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930, Martin A. Ruehl's elegant exploration of the German idea of the Renaissance from Jacob Burckhardt to Hans Baron. … The book's lavish illustrations supplement the literary, textual approach with an evocative glimpse at neo-Renaissance art and architecture.' Tuska Benes, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern; 2. Ruthless Renaissance: Burckhardt, Nietzsche and the violent birth of the modern self; 3. Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus; 4. 'The first modern man on the throne': Reich, race and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second; 5. The Renaissance reclaimed: Hans Baron's case for Bürgerhumanismus; 6. Conclusion: the waning of the Renaissance - death and afterlife of an idea; Bibliography; Index.