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Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Italy
ISBN : 1500210919
Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0500233330
Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440829604
Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, beliefs, and practices of those who lived during this exciting time period. The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347–1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities. The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.
Author : John Harold Plumb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : OCLC:477048441
Author : Catherine B. Avery
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0136120512
Descriptions of literary works and characters and biographical material on important artists of the three-hundred-year period
Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art, Renaissance
ISBN : NWU:35556029035243
This is a rich and engaging history of England and its associations with the Italian Renaissance by Britain's leading Renaissance historian.
Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000039090950
This is a rich portrait of Europe and its civilization in the 16th century - the moment when Europe first became an entity in the minds of its own inhabitants. It does not simply survey high culture, but paints a gigantic portrait of the age, enlivened by a mass of detail about the lives of often obscure figures who Hale brings to life to give point to his multiplicity of arguments.
Author : W.R. Albury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317169482
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing what is often characterized as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to detect inconsistencies which are interpreted as signs of anxiety or bad faith in its presentation. In contrast to these postmodern readings, the present study conducts an experiment. What understanding does one gain of Castiglione’s book if one attempts an early modern reading? The author approaches The Book of the Courtier as a text in which some of its most important aspects are intentionally concealed and veiled in allegory. W.R. Albury argues that this early modern reading of The Book of the Courtier enables us to recover a serious political message which has a great deal of contemporary relevance and which is lost from sight when the work is approached primarily as a courtly etiquette book, or as a lament for the lost influence of the aristocracy in an age when autocratic nation-states were coming into being, or as an impersonal textual field upon which a free play of transformations and deconstructions may be performed.
Author : John R. Hale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405152228
This fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance, first published in 1954. The book’s focus on fundamental issues and basis in little-read primary sources ensures that it endures as an important contribution to historical scholarship. Clear, chronological narrative, beautifully written. Provides essential understanding of the period, illuminating both British and Italian cultural history. The fourth edition includes a new introduction by Edward Chaney who is an expert on Anglo-Italian cultural relations. Chaney surveys the scholarship of the last 50 years and supplies an up-to-date bibliography.
Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857727756
The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In her elegant new introduction, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in European cultural history, when - between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries - Italy led the world in painting, building, science and literature. Her book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, but also histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy. Alongside towering figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Petrarch, Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, Cox reveals a cast of lesser-known protagonists including printers, travel writers, actresses, courtesans, explorers, inventors and even celebrity chefs. At the same time, Italy's rich regional diversity is emphasised; in addition to the great artistic capitals of Florence, Rome and Venice, smaller but cutting-edge centres such as Ferrara, Mantua, Bologna, Urbino and Siena are given their due. As the author demonstrates, women played a far more prominent role in this exhilarating resurgence than was recognized until very recently - both as patrons of art and literature and as creative artists themselves. 'Renaissance woman', she boldly argues, is as important a legacy as 'Renaissance man'.
Author : John Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871347
In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious general readers of history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrative history; rather, it is an examination of the humanists, artists and patrons who were the instruments of this change; the contemporary factors that favoured it; and the elements of ancient thought they revived.
Author : Daniel Waley,Peter Denley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317890188
From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-states to the unification of Spain, Daniel Waley and Peter Denley focus on the growing power of the state to illuminate changing political ideas in Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spanning the entire continent and beyond, and using contemporary voices wherever possible, the authors include substantial sections on economics, religion, and art, and how developments in these areas fed into and were influenced by the transformation of political thinking. The new edition takes the narrative beyond the confines of western Europe with chapters on East Central Europe and the teutonic knights, and the Portuguese expansion across the Atlantic. The third edition of this classic introduction to the period includes even greater use of contemporary voices, full reading lists, and new chapters on East Central Europe and Portuguese exploration. Suitable as an introductory text for undergraduate courses in Medieval Studies and Medieval European History.
Author : Thomas Brady,Oberman,James D. Tracy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391659
The Handbook of European History 1400-1600 brings together the best scholarship into an array of topical chapters that present current knowledge and thinking in ways useful to the specialist and accessible to students and to the educated non-specialist. Forty-one leading scholars in this field of history present the state of knowledge about the grand themes, main controversies and fruitful directions for research of European history in this era. Volume 1 (Structures and Assertions) described the people, lands, religions and political structures which define the setting for this historical period. Volume 2 (Visions, Programs, Outcomes) covers the early stages of the process by which newly established confessional structures began to work their way among the populace.
Author : Carlos Ramirez-Faria
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : 8126907754
The Concise Encyclopedia Of World History Offers The Global Reading Public, Students, And Professors A Handy, Complete, And Accurate Guide To All Political Formations Since The Beginning Of History. It Reaches Into Pre-History Through The Inclusion Of The Important Families Of Languages Spoken Today. It Also Tracks Ethnic Groups, Especially Nomadic, Which Have Been Influential In The Creation Of Civilizations And States. The Entries On Existing Independent States Include Up-To-Date Political Facts And Statistics. They Mention Each Country S World Heritage Sites. To Complement The Individual Entries In This Encyclopedia, There Is An Extensive, Commentated World-Historical Chronology. A Special Feature In This Work Is The Inclusion Of Individual Political Chronologies For Ancient Civilizations And Important Countries And Regions The World Over. To Round Out This Easy-To-Consult And Thoroughly Researched Work, There Is A Cross-Referenced Index Especially Designed For Provinces, Cities, And Other Entities Which Have No Entries Of Their Own But Appear In The Entries, Sometimes Prominently, As, For Example, Abu Dhabi In The United Arab Emirates Or Amritsar In India.
Author : George Holmes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0192854445
Traces the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to the present, and examines the connections between Italian society, politics, and culture.
