The Routledge History of the Renaissance

Buch | Hardcover

430 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-89885-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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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

Samuel K. Cohn

16 - Dead(ly) Uncertainties: Plague and Ottoman Society

Nükhet Varlik

17 - Mapping Florence and Tuscany

Nicholas Eckstein

18 - Exercise and Leisure: Sport, and Games

Alessandro Arcangeli

19 - War, Entrepreneurship, and Politics

Suzanne Sutherland

Section IV: Power and Representation

20 - From Frontier Principality to Early Modern Empire: Capabilities and Limits of Ottoman Governance

Kaya Sahin

21 - Commerce and Credit in Renaissance Florence

Paul D. McLean and John F. Padgett

22 - Against the Fisc and Justice: State Formation, Market Development and Customs Fraud

Corey Tazzara

23 - Representations of the Florentine Republic at the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Hungary

Katalin Prajda

24 - From the Palazzo to the Streets: Women’s Agency and Networks of Exchange

Megan Moran

Further reading

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Histories
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	906 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-89885-6 / 1138898856
ISBN-13	978-1-138-89885-1 / 9781138898851
Zustand	Neuware