Italy in the Age of the Renaissance

1300-1550
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-870040-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Reihe: Short Oxford History of Italy

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.

Zielgruppe

Students of history of the relevant countries and periods, interested general readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Najemy, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

John M. Najemy: Introduction
1: Robert Black: Education and the Emergence of a Literate Society
2: Carol Everhart Quillen: Humanism and the Lure of Antiquity
3: David S. Peterson: Religion and the Church
4: Julius Kirshner: Family and Marriage: a Socio-Legal Perspective
5: Diane Owen Hughes: Bodies, Disease, and Society
6: Franco Franceschi: The Economy: Work and Wealth
7: Andrea Zorzi: The Popolo
8: Dale Kent: The Power of the Elites: Family, Patronage, and the State
9: John M. Najemy: Governments and Governance
10: David Abulafia: The South
11: Edward Muir: Representations of Power
12: Alison Brown: Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy's Crisis
Further Reading
Chronology

Über Autor(innen)

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