| Description | | - Accessible treatment of themes by a team of leading specialists provides a perfect introduction to the latest thinking in the field without the need for extensive background knowledge.
- Inclusion of recent research in social and political history helps present a new, wider picture of Italian history in this period than that provided by the more restricted traditional accounts.
- Comprehensive treatment of all areas of Italy helps the reader to look beyond the traditional concentration on Florence and Venice.
- Coverage of the thirteenth century helps the reader to understand the important and often neglected links between the Renaissance and the preceding medieval period.
| | 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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Readership: Undergraduate History students studying courses in the Renaissance or Italy in the Renaissance etc. Also the general reader interested in Renaissance studies. In the US, could also be of interest to students on broader introductory courses (eg Western Civilization / World History), most of which contain courses on Renaissance Italy and / or Europe.
| Contents |
Introduction
,
John M. Najemy
1.
Education and the Emergence of a Literate Society
,
Robert Black
2.
Humanism and the Lure of Antiquity
,
Carol Everhart Quillen
3.
Religion and the Church
,
David S. Peterson
4.
Family and Marriage: a Socio-Legal Perspective
,
Julius Kirshner
5.
Bodies, Disease, and Society
,
Diane Owen Hughes
6.
The Economy: Work and Wealth
,
Franco Franceschi
7.
The Popolo
,
Andrea Zorzi
8.
The Power of the Elites: Family, Patronage, and the State
,
Dale Kent
9.
Governments and Governance
,
John M. Najemy
10.
The South
,
David Abulafia
11.
Representations of Power
,
Edward Muir
12.
Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy's Crisis
,
Alison Brown
Further Reading
Chronology
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by John M. Najemy, Professor of History, Cornell University
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