Italy in the Age of the Renaissance : 1300-1550 Paperback / softback
Edited by John M. (Professor of History, Cornell University) Najemy
Part of the Short Oxford History of Italy series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes.
This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 5 Maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:04/11/2004
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- ISBN:9780198700401
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 5 Maps
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:04/11/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198700401
