Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550 (Short Oxford History of Italy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198700407 ISBN 13: 9780198700401

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance society, intellectual history, and politics, with each contribution reflecting the most recent innovations in the way that historians view and study the period.

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0198700407
• ISBN 13: 9780198700401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Najemy John M.