Alison M Brown

The Renaissance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its 'modernity', its elitism and gender-bias, and its globalism. This book is an invaluable source for students of the Renaissance, early modern history, and social and cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780367151843
• ISBN-10: 0367151847
• Artikelnr.: 60008387

Autorenporträt

Alison Brown is Emeritus Professor of Italian Renaissance History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her work has focused on the history of Florence during the Medici and Savonarolan regimes and the revolution in political thinking and language at this time. Her most recent publications include The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence (2010) and Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. The Problem of Interpretation 2. The Concept of
Revival 3. Earlier Renaissances, 800-1300 PART TWO: CONTEXT: POLITICS AND
RELIGION 4. Italian Communes and City-States, c. 1300 5. The Rise of
Lordships and the Black Death 6. Florence, Venice and Naples 7. Rome and
the Papacy PART THREE: RENAISSANCE PASSIONS 8. Petrarch: self-love and the
love of books 9. New Schools 10. Liberty and Republicanism 11. Art and
Architecture 12. Man the Measure of all things: humanism and gender 13.
Religion ancient and modern PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND THE CIRCULATION OF NEW
IDEAS 14. Commerce and the Classics in Europe and the East 15. Portugal,
Spain and the New World 16. The Invention of Printing 17. Representation
and the Renaissance Theatre PART FIVE: ASSESSMENT 18. Globalism and the
Renaissance PART SIX: DOCUMENTS