A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance By Guido Ruggiero (ed.)
2006 | 566 Pages | ISBN: 1405157836 | PDF | 24 MB
This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive. Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective. Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite. Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.Content: Chapter 1 The Italian Renaissance (pages 21-38): Gene BruckerChapter 2 The European Renaissance (pages 39-54): Randolph StarnChapter 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East (pages 55-69): Linda T. DarlingChapter 4 The Renaissance World from the West (pages 70-87): Matthew RestallChapter 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance (pages 88-103): Peter BurkeChapter 6 Governments and Bureaucracies (pages 104-123): Edward MuirChapter 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe (pages 124-138): James R. FarrChapter 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model (pages 139-155): Gregory HanlonChapter 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility (pages 156-171): Robert MuchembledChapter 10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World (pages 172-187): Joanne M. FerraroChapter 11 Gender (pages 188-207): Elissa B. WeaverChapter 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism (pages 208-224): John Jeffries MartinChapter 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes (pages 225-242): Matthew VesterChapter 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes (pages 243-258): James S. AmelangChapter 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy (pages 259-278): Karl AppuhnChapter 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy (pages 279-295): John A. MarinoChapter 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World (pages 297-315): David C. GentilcoreChapter 18 High Culture (pages 316-332): Ingrid D. RowlandChapter 19 Religious Cultures (pages 333-348): R. Po?Chia HsiaChapter 20 Art (pages 334-365): Loren PartridgeChapter 21 Literature (pages 366-383): James Grantham TurnerChapter 22 Political Ideas (pages 384-402): John M. NajemyChapter 23 The Scientific Renaissance (pages 403-424): William EamonChapter 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger (pages 425-443): Mary LindemannChapter 25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age (pages 444-459): Linda WoodbridgeChapter 26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World (pages 460-474): Thomas F. ArnoldChapter 27 Witchcraft and Magic (pages 475-490): Guido RuggieroChapter 28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance (pages 491-505): Ian Frederick Moulton