2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2019. — 356 p. A clear, lively, and deeply informed survey of life in Renaissance Italy for students and general readers, this book presents a thoughtful cultural and social anthropology of practices, values, and negotiations. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2013. — 448 p. Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the fantastic artworks for which it has become famous. But behind the vast explosion of new art and...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2013. — 448 p. Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the fantastic artworks for which it has become famous. But behind the vast explosion of new art and...
University of California Press, 2019. — 253 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520296-98-2. Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and...
Routledge, 2019. — 296 p. Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and...
ABC-CLIO, 2007. — 459 p. — ISBN: 978-1-851097-72-4. This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. Over 135 biographical entries covering the extraordinary women who made significant contributions to the art, science,...
The Teaching Company, 2018. — 375 p. — (The Great Courses). — ISBN: 978-1980021841, 9781-682769676. True PDF While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics,...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107122-87-2. Italians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial states of...
2nd Ed. — Greenwood Press, 2019. — 371 p. — (Daily Life Through History Series) — ISBN: 978-1-440856-92-3. A clear, lively, and deeply informed survey of life in Renaissance Italy for students and general readers, this book presents a thoughtful cultural and social anthropology of practices, values, and negotiations. • Brings the Italian Renaissance to contemporary readers. •...
New Haven, CT; London, U.K.: Yale University Press, 2011. — 440 p., 69 b/w illus. A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450–1600. The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and...
Artykuł. — Dane bibliograficzne nie są wymienione. — С. 9-20. Tematem głównym artykułu jest problem tzw. „trzeciej Reformacji” (Enno van Gelder) i jej relacji z ideami humanizmu renesansowego, Reformacji protestanckiej i reformacji katolickiej. Esej omawia rozmaite znaczenia pojęć takich jak „renascentia”/„rinascita dell’arte” jako paralelne do pojęcia „reformacja” albo wobec...
De Agostini, 2011. — 255 p. Per ricordare gli avvenimenti dell'età rinascimentale, dalla formazione di Principati e Signorie all'Europa del Cinquecento. Un quadro completo della società del tempo: il pensiero filosofico, il cammino dell'arte e dell'architettura, la letteratura dall'Umanesimo alla Controriforma, la musica e il teatro.
Peter Lang Inc., 2018. — 132 p. Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people’s perspectives on hunting in the context of the French Wars of Religion. Court poets such as Jodelle and Ronsard highlight the central role of the king in the hunt. The study examines...
University of Illinois Press, 2017. — 248 p. The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 450 p. In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 208 p. This book tells the story of how a nineteenth-century concept, the Renaissance, has encouraged us to forget many of the artistic, social, religious, and cultural links between East and West characteristic of previous centuries. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to sodomy, from portraits of St. George to Arabic philosophy, from...