The Renaissance World / Edition 1

by John Jeffries Martin

Overview

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.

Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged.

Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade.

Beginning with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ending with its lasting influence, this book is an invaluable read, which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415455114
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Series:	Routledge Worlds
Pages:	728
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

John Jeffries Martin is Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. He is editor of The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Three Preludes 1. Rome at the Center of a Civilization 2. Framing and Mirroring the World 3. The Black Death, Tragedy, and Transformation Part 2: A World in Motion 4. The Manufacture and Movement of Goods 5. Cities, Towns, and New Forms of Culture 6. European Expansion and a New Order of Knowledge 7. The Invention of Europe 8. Humanity Part 3: The Movement of Ideas 9. The Circulation of Knowledge 10. Virgil and Homer in Poland 11. Montaigne in Italy 12. 'Shared Studies Foster Friendship': Humanism and History in Spain Katherine 13. Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More: Parallel Lives Part 4: The Circulation of Power 14. Courts, Art, and Power 15. An Imperial Renaissance 16. Renaissance Triumphalism in Art 17. The Ottoman Empire 18. Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance 19. Mothers and Children 20. The Renaissance Goes Up in Smoke Part 5: Making Identities 21. Human Exceptionalism 22. Worthy of Faith? Authors and Readers in Early Modernity 23. The Renaissance Portrait: From Resemblance to Representation 24. Objects and Identity: Antonio de’Medici and the Casino at San Marco in Florence 25. Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption 26. Shakespeare’s Dream of Retirement Part 6: Beliefs and Reforms 27.Speaking Books, Moving Images 28. Religious Minorities 29. Humanism and the Dream of Christian Unity 30. Christian Reform and its Discontents 31. A Tale of Two Tribunals 32. Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil 33. Toward a Sacramental Poetics Part 7: A New Order of Knowledge 34. The Sun at the Center of the World

Editorial Reviews

"This book is one among a series (13 and counting) of compendious studies of periods or cultures published by Routledge, each designed to tell a very large story through a number of specifically detailed studies. ... It is brought into focus by scholars, most very well known, who provide exemplary detailed accounts of economic, intellectual, political, and religious transformations that make clear this period's claim as one of innovation and transformation. ... " — CHOICE September 2008 Vol. 46 (A. Rabil, Jr., SUNY College at Old Westbury)

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