The Routledge History of the Renaissance

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-87286-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

Reihe: Routledge Histories

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as one of ongoing change within an international framework. It takes as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people, across social, religious, political and physical boundaries.

Covering a broad range of temporal periods and geographic regions, the chapters discuss topics such as the material cultures of Renaissance societies; the increased popularity of shopping as a pastime in fourteenth-century Italy; military entrepreneurs and their networks across Europe; the emergence and development of the Ottoman empire from the early fourteenth to the late sixteenth century; and women and humanism in Renaissance Europe. The volume is interdisciplinary in nature, combining historical methodology with techniques from the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology and literary criticism. It allows for juxtapositions of approaches that are usually segregated into traditional subfields, such as intellectual, political, gender, military and economic history.

Capturing dynamic new approaches to the study of this fascinating period and illustrated throughout with images, figures and tables, this comprehensive volume is a valuable resource for all students and scholars of the Renaissance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caferro, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction: The Renaissance Question

William Caferro

Part I: Disciplines and Boundaries

1 - The ‘Economic’ Thought of the Renaissance

Germano Maifredi

2 - A Makeshift Renaissance: North India in the "Long" Fifteenth Century

Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University)

3 - ‘By Imitating Our Nurses:’ Latin and Vernacular in the Renaissance

Eugenio Refini

4 - Individualism and the Separation of Fields of Study

William Caferro

5 - Riddles of Renaissance Philosophy and Humanism

Timothy Kircher

Part II: Encounters and Transformations

6 - Raw Materials and Object Lessons

Timothy McCall and Sean Roberts

7 - Imagination and the Remains of Roman Antiquity

Will Stenhouse

8 - Sporus in the Renaissance, or The Eunuch as Straight Man

Katherine Crawford

9 - Heritable Identity Markers, Nations and Physiognomy

Carina Johnson

10 - Biondo Flavio on Ethiopia: Processes of Knowledge Production in the Renaissance

Samantha Kelly

11 - Traditions of Byzantine Astrolabes in Renaissance Europe

Darin Hayton

12 - Reading Machiavelli in Sixteenth Century Florence

Ann Moyer

Part III: Society and Environment

13 - Why Visit the Shops: Taking up Shopping as a Pastime

Susan Stuard

14 - Throwing Aristotle from the Train: Women and Humanism

Sarah Ross

15 - Mechanisms for Unity: Plagues and Saints

Über Autor(innen)

William Caferro is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His research has focused primarily on economy and violence in medieval and Renaissance Italy, and most recently on Dante and Empire. His latest book, Contesting The Renaissance (2011), traces the meaning and use of the term "Renaissance" in the major debates of the historiography. He is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) and is foreign fellow of the Deputazione di Storia Patria di Toscana and l'Associazione di Studi Storici Elio Conti.