Renaissance Keywords

Name: Renaissance Keywords
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ISBN: 9781907975295

ISBN-10: 1907975292

ISBN-13: 9781907975295

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ita Mac Carthy

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Certain words played a crucial role in the making of the European Renaissance, and still recur today in our shifting understanding of it. Discretion and grace, to take two examples studied here, express how individuals thought about themselves, each other and their experience of the world, yet they are as hard to define as they are ever-present in Renaissance discourse. In this collection of essays, scholars from across the Humanities offer new interpretations of these and other 'keywords', to adopt Raymond Williams's term, and investigate the vocabulary that not only accompanied, but also produced, the cultural transformations that made the Renaissance so distinctive. A keywords approach…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 5/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 158
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Overview of Chapters


Notes on the Contributors


The New Philologists




Sense




Disegno




Allegory




Grace




Scandal




Discretion




Modern



Index