The Renaissance world

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2007

Subject:

Renaissance
Europe - Civilization
Europe - History - 476-1492
Europe - History - 1492-1648

Contributor:

Martin, John Jeffries

ISBN:

9780415332590, 0415332591, 0415332591 (hardback), and 9780415332590 (hardback)

Description:

xxi, 702 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The Renaissance: a world in motion / John Jeffries Martin -- Rome at the center of a civilization / Ingrid Rowland -- Framing and mirroring the world / Lyle Massey -- The Black Death, tragedy, and transformation / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. -- The manufacture and movement of goods / Joanne M. Ferraro -- Cities, towns, and new forms of culture / Alexander Cowan -- European expansion and the new order of knowledge / Francisco Bethencourt --The invention of Europe / John A. Marino -- José de Acosta: Renaissance historiography and New World humanity / Anthony Grafton -- The circulation of knowledge / Peter Burke -- Virgil and Homer in Poland / Michael Tworek -- Montaigne in Italy / François Rigolot -- 'Shared studies foster friendship': humanism and history in Spain / Katherine Elliot van Liere -- Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas More: parallel lives / David Harris Sacks -- Courts, art, and power / Malcolm Vale -- The imperial Renaissance / Thomas James Dandelet -- Renaissance triumphalism in art / Randolph Starn -- The Ottoman Empire / Daniel Goffman -- Religious authority and ecclesiastical governance / Constantin Fasolt -- Mothers and children / Caroline Castiglione -- The Renaissance goes up in smoke / Robert C. Davis -- Human exceptionalism / Kenneth Gouwens -- Worthy of faith? Authors and readers in early modernity / Albert Russell Ascoli -- The Renaissance portrait: from resemblance to representation / Bronwen Wilson -- Objects and identity: Antonio de' Medici and the Casino at San Marco in Florence / Jaqueline Marie Musacchio -- Food: Pietro Aretino and the art of conspicuous consumption / Douglas Biow -- Shakespeare's dream of retirement / David Bevington -- Speaking books, moving images / Meredith J. Gill -- Religious minorities / N. S. Davidson -- Humanism and the dream of Christian unity / Susan R. Boettcher -- Christian reform and its discontents / Brad S. Gregory -- A tale of two tribunals / David Gentilcore -- Christianity in sixteenth-century Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf -- Toward a sacramental poetics / Regina Maria Schwartz -- The sun at the center of the world / Paula Findlen.

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

CB361 .R476 2007

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