The Renaissance in EuropeLaurence King Publishing, 2003 - 368 pages "The Renaissance is usually portrayed as a period dominated by the extraordinary achievements of great men: rulers, philosophers, poets, painters, architects and scientists. Leading scholar Margaret King recasts the Renaissance as a more complex cultural movement rooted in a unique urban society that was itself the product of many factors and interactions: commerce, papal and imperial ambitions, artistic patronage, scientific discovery, aristocratic and popular violence, legal precedents, peasant migrations, famine, plague, invasion and other social factors. Together with literary and artistic achievements, therefore, today's Renaissance history includes the study of power, wealth, gender, class, honour, shame, ritual and other categories of historical investigation opened up in recent years. Tracing the diffusion of the Renaissance from Italy to the rest of Europe, Professor King marries the best work of the last generation of scholars with the findings of the most recent research, including her own. Ultimately, she points to the multiple ways in which this seminal epoch influenced the later development of Western culture and society."--Jacket. |
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... CHAPTER I Italy and Rome : From Roman Republic to Secondo Popolo ( c . 500 B.C.E. - 1300 C.E. ) 1 The Romanization of Italy 2 Invasion and Destruction 4 Early Migrations 4 Germanic Incursions 5 FOCUS Monte Cassino 6 Cathedral and ...
... CHAPTER I Italy and Rome : From Roman Republic to Secondo Popolo ( c . 500 B.C.E. - 1300 C.E. ) 1 The Romanization of Italy 2 Invasion and Destruction 4 Early Migrations 4 Germanic Incursions 5 FOCUS Monte Cassino 6 Cathedral and ...
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... CHAPTER 6 The Church and the People ( c . 1350 - c . 1530 ) 167 Papacy and Papal State 167 The Rise of the Papacy 168 FOCUS Popes and Cardinals 170 Challenges to the Papacy 172 Popular Religion 174 Paganism and Heresy 174 The Mendicant ...
... CHAPTER 6 The Church and the People ( c . 1350 - c . 1530 ) 167 Papacy and Papal State 167 The Rise of the Papacy 168 FOCUS Popes and Cardinals 170 Challenges to the Papacy 172 Popular Religion 174 Paganism and Heresy 174 The Mendicant ...
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... CHAPTER II The Renaissance and New Worlds ( c . 1500 - c . 1700 ) 321 The New World in the Ocean Sea 322 The Mediterranean 322 Portuguese Ventures 322 Spanish Exploration and Conquest 323 FOCUS The Renaissance and Globalization 324 ...
... CHAPTER II The Renaissance and New Worlds ( c . 1500 - c . 1700 ) 321 The New World in the Ocean Sea 322 The Mediterranean 322 Portuguese Ventures 322 Spanish Exploration and Conquest 323 FOCUS The Renaissance and Globalization 324 ...
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Contents
FOCUS Monte Cassino | 6 |
VOICES How to Succeed in Business | 20 |
An Age of Republics c 1250c 1350 | 33 |
Urban Culture in a Republican Age | 47 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 63 |
VOICES Barbaro and Pico | 79 |
The Sociology of Humanism | 93 |
The Artful Construction of Reality | 106 |
FOCUS The Medici | 212 |
The Crisis and Beyond | 225 |
Castigliones The Courtier | 234 |
Ideas and the Arts in Late Renaissance Italy | 242 |
VOICES Pietro Aretino Scourge of Princes | 249 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 255 |
FOCUS The English Century | 264 |
FOCUS The Enchantments of Nowhere | 272 |
Portraits and Personality | 120 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 135 |
At Home and in the Piazza | 137 |
VOICES Riot Plague and Punishment | 148 |
VOICES The Duties of a Wife | 157 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 165 |
Popular Religion | 174 |
Saints and Martyrs | 180 |
Pastors of the Flock | 187 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 193 |
VOICES A Despots Advice and a Republicans Lament | 204 |
VOICES Luther and Calvin on Liberty and Free Will | 279 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 285 |
FOCUS Early Modern Cities | 294 |
VOICES Spanish Sketches | 299 |
VOICES In Search of Authenticity | 311 |
Suggested Readings and Links | 319 |
New Heavens New Earth | 330 |
VOICES Scientific Observers | 336 |
European Penetration of the Americas 1700 334 | 352 |
Credits | 359 |
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