Italy in the Age of the Renaissance 1300-1550

Name: Italy in the Age of the Renaissance 1300-1550
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ISBN: 9780198700401

ISBN-10: 0198700407

ISBN-13: 9780198700401

Edition: 2004

Authors: John M. Najemy

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Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Introduction




Education and the Emergence of a Literate Society




Humanism and the Lure of Antiquity




Religion and the Church




Family and Marriage: a Socio-Legal Perspective




Bodies, Disease, and Society




The Economy: Work and Wealth




The Popolo




The Power of the Elites: Family, Patronage, and the State




Governments and Governance




The South




Representations of Power




Rethinking the Renaissance in the Aftermath of Italy's Crisis



Further Reading


Chronology