The Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780367151881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Alison M. Brown

Opis

The Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its ‘modernity’, its elitism and gender-bias, and its globalism. This book is an invaluable source for students of the Renaissance, early modern history, and social and cultural history.

Spis treści

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION  1. The Problem of Interpretation  2. The Concept of Revival  3. Earlier Renaissances, 800-1300  PART TWO: CONTEXT: POLITICS AND RELIGION  4. Italian Communes and City-States, c. 1300  5. The Rise of Lordships and the Black Death  6. Florence, Venice and Naples  7. Rome and the Papacy  PART THREE: RENAISSANCE PASSIONS  8. Petrarch: self-love and the love of books  9. New Schools  10. Liberty and Republicanism  11. Art and Architecture  12. Man the Measure of all things: humanism and gender  13. Religion ancient and modern  PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND THE CIRCULATION OF NEW IDEAS  14. Commerce and the Classics in Europe and the East  15. Portugal, Spain and the New World  16. The Invention of Printing  17. Representation and the Renaissance Theatre  PART FIVE: ASSESSMENT  18. Globalism and the Renaissance  PART SIX: DOCUMENTS

O autorze

Alison Brown is Emeritus Professor of Italian Renaissance History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work has focused on the history of Florence during the Medici and Savonarolan regimes and the revolution in political thinking and language at this time. Her most recent publications include The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence (2010) and Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy (2020).