Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era) - Hardcover

John A. Wagner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1440876037 ISBN 13: 9781440876035

Publisher: Greenwood, 2022

Synopsis

The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms.

Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning rebirth."

The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era."

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About the Author

John A. Wagner, PhD, has taught British and U.S. history at Phoenix College and at Arizona State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440876037
• ISBN 13: 9781440876035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: John A. Wagner