The Renaissance World

ISBN-13: 9780415332590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 728 str.

John J. Martin

Opis

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.

Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged.

Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade.

Beginning with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ending with its lasting influence, this book is an invaluable read, which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again.

Recenzje

"This book is one among a series (13 and counting) of compendious studies of periods or cultures published by Routledge, each designed to tell a very large story through a number of specifically detailed studies. ... It is brought into focus by scholars, most very well known, who provide exemplary detailed accounts of economic, intellectual, political, and religious transformations that make clear this period's claim as one of innovation and transformation. ... " -- CHOICE September 2008 Vol. 46 (A. Rabil, Jr., SUNY College at Old Westbury)

Spis treści

Introduction The Renaissance: A World in Motion  Part 1: Three Preludes  1. Rome at the Center of a Civilization  2. Framing and Mirroring the World  3. The Black Death, Tragedy, and Transformation  Part 2: A World in Motion  4. The Manufacture and Movement of Goods  5. Cities, Towns, and New Forms of Culture  6. European Expansion and a New Order of Knowledge  7. The Invention of Europe  8. Jose de Acosta: Renaissance historiography and New World humanity  Part 3: The Movement of Ideas  9. The Circulation of Knowledge  10. Virgil and Homer in Poland  11. Montaigne in Italy  12. 'Shared Studies Foster Friendship': Humanism and History in Spain  13. Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More: Parallel Lives  Part 4: The Circulation of Power  14. Courts, Art, and Power  15. An Imperial Renaissance  16. Renaissance Triumphalism in Art  17. The Ottoman Empire  18. Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance  19. Mothers and Children  20. The Renaissance Goes Up in Smoke  Part 5: Making Identities  21. Human Exceptionalism  22. Worthy of Faith? Authors and Readers in Early Modernity  23. The Renaissance Portrait: From Resemblance to Representation  24. Objects and Identity: Antonio de’Medici and the Casino at San Marco in Florence  25. Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption  26. Shakespeare’s Dream of Retirement  Part 6: Beliefs and Reforms  27. Speaking Books, Moving Images  28. Religious Minorities  29. Humanism and the Dream of Christian Unity  30. Christian Reform and its Discontents  31. A Tale of Two Tribunals  32. Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil  33. Toward a Sacramental Poetics  Part 7: A New Order of Knowledge  34. The Sun at the Center of the World

O autorze

John Jeffries Martin is Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina.  He is editor of The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad.