Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550
Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes. This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.
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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550
Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes. This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.
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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550

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Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes. This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.

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ISBN-13: 9780191524844
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 11/05/2004
Series: Short Oxford History of Italy
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, John M. Najemy1. Education and the Emergence of a Literate Society, Robert Black2. Humanism and the Lure of Antiquity, Carol Everhart Quillen3. Religion and the Church, David S. Peterson4. Family and Marriage: a Socio-Legal Perspective, Julius Kirshner5. Bodies, Disease, and Society, Diane Owen Hughes6. The Economy: Work and Wealth, Franco Franceschi7. The Popolo, Andrea Zorzi8. The Power of the Elites: Family, Patronage, and the State, Dale Kent9. Governments and Governance, John M. Najemy10. The South, David Abulafia11. Representations of Power, Edward Muir12. Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy's Crisis, Alison BrownFurther ReadingChronology
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