Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 260 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 77). The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect and organize in one database all the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 260 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 77). The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect and organize in one database all the...
University of Oxford, 1974. — 585 p. The last comprehensive biography on Francesco Filelfo was written well over one hundred and fifty years ago. Since then the general state of knowledge about this humanist has been largely conditioned by G. Voigt's hostile assessment and G. Bendaucci's unsystematic and unreliable studies. Monographs on Filelfo's stay at Florence and Siena...
Brill, 2021. — 302 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 327). If the universe were conceived to fulfill a certain divine plan or to manifest God’s will and glory, what would the place of an individual be within this plan? What is more, if, from the very beginning of its existence and through divine providence, it were predestined to be driven toward a certain end, how...
Brill, 2020. — 272 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 325). An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem , published in 1496. Ovanes Akopyan , Ph.D., is a research fellow at the University of Innsbruck.
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...
University of California Press, 2002. — 324 p. — ISBN: 9780520229471. Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 215 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world. This volume makes its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 270 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). War Famine Plague Winners and Losers Population and the Economy: Underlying Trends Conclusion: Towards the Seventeenth Century
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 386 p. In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance , covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 386 p. In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance , covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable...
Brown University, 2011. — 541 p. This is the first translation of the editio princeps of Le Lettere di M. Bernardo Tasso which was published in Venice by the printer Valgrisi in 1549. Letter collections were published in abundance during the Renaissance, in Italy especially, and they constituted a separate genre that helped establish a literary Italian language. Bernardo...
Anthem Press, 2021. — 262 p. Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and why, putting the literature of the European Renaissance in the context of the history of violence. Personal violence was on the decline in Europe beginning in the fifteenth century, but...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 198 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). The Need for Recreation The Medical Discourse The Moral Discourse Games and Law Varieties of Pastimes
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 387 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates how the “predictive art” of...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 382 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this...
Brill, 2017. — 426 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 7). By way of essays and a selection of primary sources in parallel text, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing provides an introduction to a vast, significant, but neglected corpus of early modern literature: collective biography. It focuses especially on the various related strands of political,...
Riley Mark (ed.). — Leuven University Press, 2013. — 380 p. — (Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae). Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual’s peculiarities of behavior and...
2nd Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 320 p. The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period. For this edition, a new chapter on Dante and his time provides a useful transition to the Renaissance from the culture of the Middle Ages. There are also new...
2nd Edition. — University of Toronto Press, 2011. — 320 p. The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period. For this edition, a new chapter on Dante and his time provides a useful transition to the Renaissance from the culture of the Middle Ages. There are also new...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 288 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Pilgrim and Preacher seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation. Fabri, an...
University Of Chicago Press, 1999. — 392 p.
How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 278 p. — (Volume in the series Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, 51). The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch’s legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy. Petrarch’s vast literary production influenced the intellectual framework in which new...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 397 p. — (The Northern World 8). This volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth-century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period. With contributions by Mark Arvanigian, Kelly DeVries, Sharon...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 328 p. In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as...
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...
Brill, 2021. — 392 p. — (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 52). Sculpture in Print, 1480–1600 is the first in-depth study dedicated to the intriguing history of the translation of statues and reliefs into print. The multitude of engravings, woodcuts and etchings show a highly creative handling of the ‘original’ antique or contemporary work of art....
Brill, 2020. — xx, 584 p. — (Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe 10). This is the first edition since its original publication of Daniel Heinsius’ Latin tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (Orange, or Liberty Wounded, 1602), with an introduction, a parallel English translation, and a commentary. Centering on the assassination of William of Orange, one of the leaders of...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 375 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire was the city of Brescia which,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 620 p. — (The New Antiquity). — ISBN 978-3-031-14799-9. This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism—in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 832 p. — (The New Antiquity). — ISBN 978-3-031-14800-2ю This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism—in...
D.S. Brewer, 2012. — 256 p. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 320 p. Giuliano da Sangallo (1443–1516) was one of the first architects to draw the ruins and artifacts of ancient Rome in a systematic way. Cammy Brothers shows how Giuliano played a crucial role in the Renaissance recovery of antiquity, and how his work transformed the broken fragments of Rome's past into the image of a city made whole....
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 320 p. Giuliano da Sangallo (1443–1516) was one of the first architects to draw the ruins and artifacts of ancient Rome in a systematic way. Cammy Brothers shows how Giuliano played a crucial role in the Renaissance recovery of antiquity, and how his work transformed the broken fragments of Rome's past into the image of a city made whole....
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 320 p. Giuliano da Sangallo (1443–1516) was one of the first architects to draw the ruins and artifacts of ancient Rome in a systematic way. Cammy Brothers shows how Giuliano played a crucial role in the Renaissance recovery of antiquity, and how his work transformed the broken fragments of Rome's past into the image of a city made whole....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0192801635; ISBN13: 978-0192801630. More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe...
Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. — 2005. — 237 p. ISBN10: 0520241347; ISBN13: 978-0520241343. In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene...
Brill, 2016. — xxi, 561 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 5). Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) was the genre-defining secular woman writer of Renaissance Italy, whose literary model helped to establish a decorous and wholly assimilated voice for women within the field of Italian literature. The Companion to Vittoria Colonna brings together an international and...
James Hankins (ed.). — Harvard University Press, 2001. — 544 p. — (The I Tatti Renaissance library 3). Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author...
James Hankins (ed.). — Harvard University Press, 2004. — 608 p. — (The I Tatti Renaissance library 16). Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author...
James Hankins, D.J.W. Bradley (eds.). — Harvard University Press, 2007. — 503 p. — (The I Tatti Renaissance library 27). Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the...
Central European University Press, 2016. — 286 p.
Hybrid Renaissance presents the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe as an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are 'hybridization' and 'Renaissance.' Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09431-4; ISBN: 0-691-02838-9 (pbk) In this substantially revised edition of his widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyzes the...
Third edition. - Cambridge. Polity Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-7456-7967-9 This book is a history of the culture of the Italian Renaissance in a period (roughly 1400–1550) in which contemporaries claimed that art and literature was ‘reborn’. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Renaissance movement was a systematic attempt to go forward by going back – in other words, to break with...
Polity Press, 2014. — 336 p. In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of extraordinary artistic...
Melville House, 2015. — 240 p. On a sweltering day in June 1440, near the Tuscan town of Anghiari, the simmering conflict among Italy’s principal powers exploded into a battle whereby Florence and the papal States joined with Venice to defeat the previously unstoppable army of Milan. The shocking denoument would open the way for the flowering of Florentine culture, and the...
Brill, 2015. — 286 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 246). What was the legacy of the so-called Italian Reformation? What contribution did Italian humanism make to European developments in irenicism and religious tolerance? In The Italian Reformation outside Italy, Giorgio Caravale uses previously unpublished documents to reconstruct the life and intellectual career...
Ashgate, 2014. — 195 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 496 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 280 p. Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the Classical tradition' - the pervasive influence of ancient art and thought on later times. In response to a growing interest in Classical reception, this volume provides a timely reappraisal of the Greek and Roman legacies in...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 390 p. This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 320 p. Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history, relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern era. This means of resistance against power was prevalent during the Renaissance, and the Italian fifteenth century, in particular, can be regarded as an 'age of plots'. This book offers the first full-length...
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,...
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,...
Brill, 2010. — xiv, 274 p. — (Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 189/7). In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to teach the Aristotelian text, Poliziano...
Penn State University Press, 2019. — 240 p. A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically, revealing an intellectual whose philosophy of self-interest failed not only to perceive the interests of others but ultimately to serve...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 338 p. - Proposes a new view of the Italian court - Offers new insight into possessions and Renaissance consumption habits - Proposes a new hierarchy for the arts, looking at a range of media from gems to manuscript illumination, as well as painting and sculpture In this book, Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 350 p. In Courtly Mediators , Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 345 p. This innovative and multi-layered study of the music and culture of Renaissance instrumentalists spans the early institutionalization of instrumental music from c.1420 to the rise of the basso continuo and newer roles for instrumentalists around 1600. Employing a broad cultural narrative interwoven with detailed case studies, close...
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-313-30426-2; ISSN: 1080-4749. Discover what life was like for ordinary people living in Renaissance Italy. How was their society organized? What were their homes like? What dangers did they face? These and other questions are answered in detail to provide the reader with a unique view of the world of the Italian Renaissance. A multitude...
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. •...
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 it...
Facsimile of the 1592 Ed. — Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd.,Da Capo Press, 1969. — 220 p. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a book said to be by Francesco Colonna. It is a famous example of an incunable (a work of early printing). The work was first published in 1499 in Venice by Aldus Manutius. This...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 302 p. This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political, cultural, and personal interactions between...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 368 p. The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but there is a dark undercurrent to this fêted era of history. The same men and women who offered profound advancements in European understanding of the human condition - and laid the foundations of the Scientific Revolution - were...
Routledge, 2013. — 450 p. Making use of new and original material based on firsthand sources, this book interrogates the vogue for collecting, discussing, depicting, and putting to political and cultural use Roman antiquities in the French Renaissance. It surveys a range of activity from the labours of collectors and patrons to royal entries, considers attacks on the craze for...
Brill, 2015. — 192 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 4). Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal...
University of Chicago Press, 1987. — 287 p. It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic...
University of Chicago Press, 1987. — 287 p. It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic...
Routledge, 2019. — 225 р. Originally published in 1933 this volume traces the history of the Renaissance in Europe and shows how its artistic manifestations differed in each successive country, drawing reference from the numerous works of art that were in the London Museums and galleries in the early 20th Century. Among other things, the book covers Sculpture, Painting,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 282 p. This volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless, as this volume shows, this period may be seen as a “democratic laboratory” in many, often unexpected, ways. The classicizing cultural movement...
Penn State University Press, 2019. — 228 p. From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why this pastoral vision of Venice developed. Drawing on a variety of primary sources...
Penn State University Press. 2019. — 228 p. From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why this pastoral vision of Venice developed. Drawing on a variety of primary sources...
Bucureşti: Editura Polirom, 2003. — 457 p. Кулиану Иоан Петру. Эрос и магия в эпоху Возрождения, 1484 год (на рум. яз.) Cuprins: Introducere. Istoria fantasticului. Psihologia empirică şi psihologia abisală a erosului. Legături primejdioase. Eros şi Magie. Magia pneumatică. Magia intersubiectivă. Demonomagia. 1484. Marea cenzură a fantasticului. Doctorul Faust, din Antiohia la...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 248 p. Explores the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period - Offers the first sustained study of the history and theory of personhood in the Renaissance period - Provides a study of personhood from a materialist perspective - Models new way of entering posthumanist critique - animal studies, ecocriticism, and food studies...
Royal Historical Society, 2012. — 227 p. The Baron d'Holbach, a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment, is best known for his writings against religion. His prolific campaign of atheism and anti-clericalism, waged from the printing presses of Amsterdam in the years around 1770, was so radical that it provoked an unprecedented public response. For the baron's enemies, at...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 272 p. Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change accelerated, the production of garments provided employment for an increasingly significant...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 272 p. Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change accelerated, the production of garments provided employment for an increasingly significant...
Routledge, 2021. — 344 p. By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history , a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies. The Renaissance has attracted the attention of distinguished scholars from many different vantage points – political, social, economic,...
Brill, 2021. — 258 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 331). 'Renaissance Politics and Culture' collects ten essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the life and work of Robert Black, who has made some of the most original and significant contributions to the history of the Renaissance. Reflecting his interdisciplinary interests and approaches,...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 380 p. — (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories 24). Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 380 p. — (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories 24). Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 240 p. - An original account of the reception of Virgil in late medieval and early Renaissance England - Discusses little-known medieval manuscripts and early printed copies of Virgil - Includes the first detailed analysis of the earliest editions of Virgil printed in England - Takes a revisionist approach to the earliest extant translations of...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 240 p. - An original account of the reception of Virgil in late medieval and early Renaissance England - Discusses little-known medieval manuscripts and early printed copies of Virgil - Includes the first detailed analysis of the earliest editions of Virgil printed in England - Takes a revisionist approach to the earliest extant translations of...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 288 p. - Connects the simultaneous claims to the ancient Roman past in Renaissance Europe into one overarching narrative, which takes into account both the diachronic reception process of the literary discourse of "Rome" and the synchronic exchanges between regions and disciplines - Offers novel insights on the conservative and innovative traits...
Brill, 2022. — 426 p. — (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 59). The Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Trent (1563). Art in Dispute revisits this response by focusing on its antecedents rather than its consequences. The mid-sixteenth century saw, besides new scholarship on...
Brill, 2023. — 798 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 19). A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward,...
Brill, 2018. — 270 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 284). Contributors: Fernando Loffredo, Eugenio Imbriani, Stephen Parkin, and Giuliana Vitale This volume offers the first comprehensive study of the De Nola (Venice 1514), a hitherto underappreciated Latin text written by the Nolan humanist and physician Ambrogio Leone. Furnished with four pioneering engravings...
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.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 264 p. A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. Education was the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 264 p. A Cultural History of Education in the Renaissance presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. Education was the...
Brill, 2015. — 382 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 60). In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia , editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith,...
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 368 p. In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated...
Brill, 2016. — 557 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 257/19; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 257/19). In Giannozzo Manetti’s New Testament Annet den Haan analyses the Latin translation of the Greek New Testament made by the fifteenth-century humanist Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459). The book includes the first edition of Manetti’s text. Manetti’s...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 292 p. In a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money was understood throughout the period, and shaped discussions on such topics as the meaning...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 292 p. In a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money was understood throughout the period, and shaped discussions on such topics as the meaning...
Brill, 2014. — 453 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 49). It has been called the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine,...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 480 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 320 p. — (Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, 49). By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late sixteenth-century Florence, but his works have remained largely overlooked. This study situates representative examples of his religious painting within their respective...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 352 p. — (Europa Sacra: Religion, Society, and Identity 25). The walls of early modern convents suggested the existence of absolute conditions that seldom existed in reality. While the built enclosure communicated the convent’s isolation from the world outside, connections between women religious and individuals or groups outside...
Brill, 2018. — 281 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 10). This is the first work by Giovanni Caroli (1428–1503) to appear in print. Caroli was one of the leading theologians in Florence during the last decades of the fifteenth century, a man who lived between the two great traditions of his time: the scholastic and the humanist. The volume contains a critical edition of...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 208 p. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical art - resulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Tacitus, all unavailable before the early fifteenth...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 208 p. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical art - resulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Tacitus, all unavailable before the early fifteenth...
Paderborn: Brill Deutschland GmbH, 2021. — XXIX, 347 p. — (Poetik und Ästhetik des Staunens; 7). Die vorliegende Forschung definiert die Literatur der Renaissance neu: Die Bedeutung der aristotelischen Poetik wird zurückgestuft zugunsten innovativer – erstaunlicher – literarischer Ansätze. Das seit langem geltende Paradigma, die italienische Renaissance würde von der...
Brill, 2019. — xxxvi, 464 p.: 156 color ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 295/36; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 295/36). This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum...
D.S. Brewer, 2023. — 408 p. An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Chivalric tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were composed and circulated in Italy from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century (and indeed subsequently flourished in forms of popular theatre which continue...
Routledge, 2018. — 230 p. As a distinctive and attractive musical repertory, the hundred-odd English carols of the fifteenth century have always had a ready audience. But some of the key viewpoints about them date back to the late 1920s, when Richard L. Greene first defined the poetic form; and little has been published about them since the burst of activity around 1950, when a...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 306 p. Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, princely courts dominated the Italian political scene. These courts were effervescent centers of cultural production. As such, they became a model for European monarchies who imported Italian courtly forma del vivere (‘style of life’) to legitimize their power and to define social...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes. The period witnessed dramatic religious reforms in the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Why marry? The personal question is timeless. Yet the highly emotional desires of men and women during the period between 1450 and 1650 were also circumscribed by external forces that operated within a complex arena of sweeping economic, demographic, political, and religious changes. The period witnessed dramatic religious reforms in the...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 360 p. Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political,...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 360 p. Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as a writer. Boccaccio’s Florence explores the financial, political,...
Routledge, 2019. — 356 p. The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval...
Routledge, 2019. — 356 p. The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval...
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 280 p.
Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today’s celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story...
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. — ix, 171 p. — ISBN 978-0-7546-6427-7. Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including Shakespeare, from the late medieval period to the mid seventeenth century. The volume is divided into...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 432 p. A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace - Renaissance Italy. The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 432 p. A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace - Renaissance Italy. The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 325 S. — (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 9). So positiv das Etikett 'Klassik' und 'Klassiker' besetzt ist, so abschreckend wirkt das des 'Klassizismus', scheint es doch Epigonalität und uninspirierte Regelfixiertheit zu signalisieren. Ein Blick auf zwei den beiden Begriffen besonders affine Epochen aber zeigt, das...
Brill, 2025. — xxiv, 462 p. — (Aries Book Series 37). This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ‘one of the great Hermetic philosophers’, whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ‘one of the most important books in...
Brill, 2025. — xxii, 258 p. — (Aries Book Series 38). This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ‘one of the great Hermetic philosophers’, whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ‘one of the most important books in...
Ohio State University Press, 1989. — 324 p. Festum Voluptatis reveals an area of Renaissance artistic production that has too long been obscured by scholarship emphasizing the ideal, the refined, and the taste full. Such scholarship has apologized for or remained silent about the earthy, the sensual, and what some sensibilities would term the tasteless in the visual arts and...
Brill, 2016. — 231 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 258). The Accademia Pontaniana: A Model of a Humanist Network is an exploration of the vast intellectual networks which developed around the fifteenth century humanist Pontano. It includes the densely knit network which emerged in Naples, the Accademia Pontaniana, as well as the loosely knit networks which...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2012. — 272 p. — (Latinitates 7). Le volume aborde sous différents angles la fortune et l’influence de l’œuvre d’Hérodote à la Renaissance, dès sa première réception humaniste et ses traductions, puis l’impact sur l’historiographie renaissante. La représentation des fastes perses et des rites guerriers des Scythes offrent matière première à la...
Brill, 2023. — 871 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 6.2). The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle....
Brill, 2023. — 506 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 6.3). The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle....
Brill, 2023. — 703 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 6.4). The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle....
Brill, 2023. — 783 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 6.5). The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle....
Brill, 2023. — 611 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 6.6). The sixteenth century saw the world as being mortally threatened by Satan who was encouraged by the widespread popularity of magic and other occult practices. Church and society struck back to defend people from this tidal wave of wickedness. Del Río’s panoramic and detailed treatise provided a powerful weapon in that battle....
Brill, 2019. — Vol. 1: xii, 764 p. Vol. 2: v, 563 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 3). Nearly a century before Descartes, Gómez Pereira published the Antoniana Margarita with the purpose of demonstrating the thesis of animal automatism, among many other things. The author included in his book several proofs of animal insensitivity and an original model aimed at explaining animal...
Fordham University Press, 2013. — 272 p. This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance...
Fordham University Press, 2013. — 272 p. This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance...
Reaktion Books, 1995. — x, 294 p. — (Critical views). — ISBN: 0-948462-09-4, 0-948462-08-6, 978-0-948462-08-5. Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture – from portraits of Elizabeth I to...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 408 p. Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolò Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici...
Brill, 2014. — 178 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 177). The humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries took a passionate interest in Livy’s History of Rome. No one studied the text more intensively than the Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus, who not only held lectures on different Roman historians at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, but also...
The University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 280 p.
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but...
University Of Chicago Press, 2005. — 164 p. Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare—and finds that in the early modern...
Brill, 2019. — xxi, 418 p.; 260 color ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 294/35; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 294/35). In City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts, Ryan E. Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 314 p. — (Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde 408). Questo lavoro ha per oggetto la versione latina del Nicocles isocrateo eseguita da Guarino Veronese e dedicata a Leonello d'Este. La sezione introduttiva consta di due parti: nella prima si contestualizza il Nicocles all'interno della produzione isocratea e se ne approfondisce la fortuna in età...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by arguing for the significance and familiarity of the...
Brill, 2019. — 360 p. — (Rulers & Elites 16). The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family’s reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination of global practices in zoological...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 190 p.
Introduction: Cicero and the Decameron
Ingegno—The Individual and Authority: Decameron, Day I
Ingegno—Wit as the Soul of Action: Day II
Ingegno—Wit as Misdirection and Iconoclasm: Day III
Reason’s Debt to Passion: Day IV
The Shock of Recognition: Day V
Misrule and Inspiration: Day VI
Valley of Ingegno: Day VII
Boccaccio’s Ship of...
Brill, 2016. — 708 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 245/10; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 245/10). In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornament in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in...
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013. — 243 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-7734-4051-7. This book examines the socio-economic and gendered identities and how they are revealed on the traditional holidays in English life during 1425-1625. By examining the various holidays and celebrations, a view of life is presented that may coincide with social ranking, financial status, and gender roles....
Brill, 1990. — 402 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 17.1). Plato in the Italian Renaissance, the first book-length treatment of Renaissance Platonism in over fifty years, is a study of the dramatic revival of interest in the Platonic dialogues in Italy in the fifteenth century. Through a richly contextual study of the translations and commentaries on Plato,...
Brill, 1990. — 496 (x+366-847) p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 17.2). Plato in the Italian Renaissance, the first book-length treatment of Renaissance Platonism in over fifty years, is a study of the dramatic revival of interest in the Platonic dialogues in Italy in the fifteenth century. Through a richly contextual study of the translations and commentaries...
Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2003. - 788 p.
In this comprehensive Companion over fifty of the very best of modern scholars - including Patrick Collinson, Germaine Greer, Richard Harries, Arthur Kinney, Andrew Hadfield , Jean Howard, and Judith Anderson - come together to offer an original and far-reaching survey of English Renaissance literature and culture. The first part of the...
Routledge, 2020. — 272 p. This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts. Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and...
Brill, 2017. — 350 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 265/20; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, 265/20). Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement,...
Ashgate, 2010 - 250 p.
How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of...
Paul Holberton Publishing, 2022. — 500 p. A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature is an unprecedented exploration of the pastoral through the close examination of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature, and drama in ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, German, and English, as well as of a wide range of...
Thistle Publishing, 2014. — 672 p. A comprehensive study of the patrons of fifteenth-century Italian art, this book investigates the role they played in the evolution of the Renaissance and the revival of the styles and themes of the art of ancient Rome. This process was far from uniform: the classical tradition provided flattering models not only for absolute rulers of Italy’s...
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...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 540 p. — (Europa Sacra 20). This volume honours F. W. (Bill) Kent (1942–2010), internationally renowned scholar of Renaissance Florence and founding editor of the Europa Sacra series. Kent belonged to an energetic generation of Australians who, in the late 1960s, tackled the Florentine archives and engaged key issues confronting historians...
Brepols Publishers, 400 p. — (Europa Sacra 26). Several decades of cultural and inter-disciplinary scholarship have yielded, and continue to yield, new insights into the diversity of religious experience in Europe from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Revisionist approaches to humanism and humanists have led to a re-evaluation of the framing of belief; the...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 310 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library 452). Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a classic work on the sixteenth-century scholar/humanist.
New York: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1930. — 109 p. — (Landmarks in History). Historical Introduction. Data on the Sources. The Sources. The Letter to Servatius. The Letters of Obscure Men. The Colloquies. The Praise of Folly. Suggested Problems. Questions.
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 433 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about—and what it has meant for the field of historiography—has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in...
Brill, 2019. — 1110 p. — (Rulers & Elites 17). In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation , Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515–Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful...
Transl. from the French: Nidra Poller. — The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. — xiv, 320 p. — (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society). — ISBN 0-8018-6480-1, 978-0-8018-6480-3. The popular conception of the Renaissance as a culture devoted to order and perfection does not account for an important characteristic of Renaissance art: many of the period's major works,...
Truman State University Press, 2005. — 224 p. The art of Renaissance Siena is usually viewed in the light of developments and accomplishments achieved elsewhere, but Sienese artists were part of a dynamic dialogue that was shaped by their city's internal political turmoil, diplomatic relationships with its neighbors, internal social hierarchies, and struggle for...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 586 p. — (Boethius 71). Am dunklen Nachthimmel der vormodernen Zeit sind Kometen äußerst eindrucksvoll und erschreckend. Als gleichzeitig nach Beschreibung, Erklärung und Deutung verlangende Naturereignisse und als zeichenhafte Phänomene des Wunderbaren werden sie zwischen 1530 und 1682 zu Kondensationspunkten intensiver Kommunikationsprozesse, die...
Martin Mulsow (ed.). — Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. — 190 p. — (Sozinianismus und Heterodoxie 1). Hans (Johann) Ludwig Freiherr von Wolzogen und Neuhaus (1600–1606) gehört zu den herausragenden Gestalten des polnischen Sozinianismus bzw. der sogenannten Polnischen Brüder. In Polen rechnet man ihn noch heute wegen seiner Beschäftigung mit der Mathematik zu den Vorläufern der...
Horst Kranz (ed.). — Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 194 p. — (Boethius 66). Der Codex iconographicus 242 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek ist Johannes Fontanas bekanntestes Buch. Der venezianische Doktor der Künste und der Medizin verfaßte es um 1420, bald nach seinen ingeniösen Jugendwerken. Aus der technischen Literatur der frühen Renaissance ragt die Bilderhandschrift aus...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 312 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of...
Brill, 2022. — 500 p. The production of forgeries under the name of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) was an integral part of the diffusion of the Paracelsian movement in early modern Europe. Many of these texts were widely read and extremely influential. The inability of most readers of the time to distinguish the genuine from the fake amid the flood of...
Brill, 2014. — 404 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 2). A panoramic, state-of-the-art handbook destined to chart a course for future work in the field of early modern Hispanic theater studies. It begins in the closet with an essay on Celestina as closet drama and moves out into the court to explore intersections with courtly love. An essay on the comedia and the...
Brill, 2025. — 644 p. — (Universal Reform 4). The German physician, alchemist, kabbalist, and theosopher Heinrich Khunrath (ca. 1560–1605) is one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of the Renaissance. His work, combining text and images in a new way, is a fusion of the contemporary currents of thought in which alchemy went hand-in-hand with philosophy...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 289 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book,...
Brill, 2018. — 186 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 272). In Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance Teodoro Katinis mines a number of little or unstudied primary sources and offers the first book on the rebirth of ancient sophists in the Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Leonardo Bruni to Jacopo...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 480 p. Writing about the Renaissance can be a daunting task. Not only do scholars disagree on what the Renaissance is, but they also disagree on whether or not it even took place. Margaret L. King's richly illustrated social history of the Renaissance succeeds as a trusted resource, introducing readers to Europe between 1300–1700, as well as to...
The University of Chicago Press, 1991. — 350 p. — (Women in Culture and Society). — ISBN 0-226-43618-7. In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women’s experience in Renaissance society....
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 480 p. — ISBN: 9781487593094. Writing about the Renaissance can be a daunting task. Not only do scholars disagree on what the Renaissance is, but they also disagree on whether or not it even took place. Margaret L. King's richly illustrated social history of the Renaissance succeeds as a trusted resource, introducing readers to Europe between...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021. — 496 p. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city’s skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a...
University of California Press, 1974. — 325 p. — ISBX: 0-520-02259-9 A collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events of the time span 1 300-1670, that lead beyond the bounds of reason into...
The Great Courses / The Teaching Company, 2004. — 243 p. This course of 36 lectures introduces the art of the Italian Renaissance—the epoch that was the genesis of the next 500 years of Western art. This survey will extend from about 1400 to about 1520. The artistic language associated with the late Middle Ages began to be replaced with a radically new style around the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 243 p. — (Staatsdiskurse 11). Bis heute wird leidenschaftlich darüber gestritten, wie Niccolò Machiavelli verstanden werden muss. Dem Facettenreichtum seines politischen Denkens entspricht die Vielfalt der Perspektiven und Urteile seiner Interpreten. Die Autoren des interdisziplinär angelegten Bandes analysieren Machiavellis Werke im Zusammenhang...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 254 p. — (Boethius 68). Johannes Fontana aus Venedig trat schon während seines Studiums in Padua als Verfasser origineller technischer und wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen hervor. Was die Schriften auszeichnet, ist die enge Verknüpfung von Theorie und Praxis. Hier ergänzen sich scholastische Buchgelehrsamkeit und technische Anwendung. Zeit seines...
Routledge, 2020. — 258 p. This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the thirteenth-century pharmacopeia by Ibn Sarābī, an...
Пер. с фр.: А.Н. Смирнова, А.Б. Захаревич. — Науч. ред. М.М. Фиалко; Вступит. статья О.В. Горшуновой. — СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2017. — 592 с., ил. — ISBN 978-5-89059-299-6. Историческое исследование проблемы магии и фигуры мага. Автор утверждает, что пропасть, разделяющая наше восприятие и видение мира человеком Возрождения, не так глубока, как это порой...
Ashgate,, 2011. — 472 p. The study of funeral monuments is a growing field, but monuments erected to commemorate children have so far received little attention. Whilst the practice of erecting monuments to the dead was widespread across Renaissance Europe, the vast majority of these commemorated adults, with children generally only appearing as part of their parents' memorials....
Brill, 2015. — 410 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 247). Greece Reinvented discusses the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism as the cultural elite of Byzantium, displaced to Italy, constructed it. It explores why and how Byzantine migrants such as Cardinal Bessarion, Ianus Lascaris, and Giovanni Gemisto adopted Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine...
Brill, 2024. — x, 384 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 21). The Latin Poems of Manilius Cabacius Rallus of Sparta presents the poetic oeuvre of a forgotten poet of Renaissance Rome. A Greek by birth, Manilius Cabacius Rallus (c. 1447–c. 1523) spent most of his life far from his motherland, unable to return. Through his poems, composed in a range of metres and genres,...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 92 p. Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore - the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance , explores peace in the period from 1450 to 1648. As with all...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance , explores peace in the period from 1450 to 1648. As with all...
Brill, 2010. — 370 p. Building on recent revisionist trends, this book offers a refreshing new perspective on the Renaissance and presents an invaluable examination of continuities and discontinuities from Petrarch to Machiavelli, from Giotto to Dürer, and from Italy to Burgundy, Bohemia and beyond. At least since the publication of Burckhardt s seminal study, the Renaissance...
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 Toronto Press, 2022. — 252 p. During the Renaissance, the most renowned model of epic poetry was Virgil’s Aeneid, a poem promoting an influential concept of heroism based on the commitment to one’s nation and gods. However, Longinus’ theory of the sublime – newly recovered during the Renaissance – contradicted this absolute devotion to nation as a marker of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and...
Princeton University Press, 1980. — 316 p. Considers how the surviving letters of Michelangelo have a distinctly public character and show us the external man. Many of them are business letters and are thus in reference to his art and sculpture, creating a timeline for his work. In contrast, much of Michelangelo's poetry is more personal, showing his emotional attachment to his...
Routledge, 2022. — 272 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to cultivate more than...
Brill, 2019. — ix, 427 p., 118 color ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 293/34; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 293/34). Volume Editors: Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds brings renowned Ligorio specialists into conversation with emerging young scholars, on various aspects of the artistic, antiquarian and intellectual production of one of the...
Brill, 2019. — x, 453 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 290/21; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, 290/21). Exploration, trade and conquest expanded and upset traditional worldviews of early modern Europeans. Christians saw themselves confronted with a largely heathen world. In the wake of Iberian colonization, Jesuits successfully christianized...
Brill, 2016. — 261 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 4). Preaching is more than just speaking in public. The persuasion of people and the theory underlying it are precedents of modern propaganda. In his Rhetorica Ecclesiastica, Agostino Valier (1531-1606) outlines what a Catholic preacher should know before he is allowed to deliver his sermons. Closely related to...
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...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 408 p. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of “goods” from Portuguese trading voyages - fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial “opening up” of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this...
Princeton Universiyu Press, 2024. — 408 p. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of “goods” from Portuguese trading voyages - fruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial “opening up” of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 224 p. The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate past. In this volatile context, cultural...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 224 p. The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate past. In this volatile context, cultural...
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 cannibalism...
Brill, 2014. — vi, 171 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 232). This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a...
Brepols, 2018. — 296 p. — (Early European Research 11). Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodologies, this collection contributes ground-breaking new scholarship in the burgeoning field of emotions studies by examining how medieval and early modern Europeans communicated and 'performed' their emotions. Rejecting the notion that emotions are...
Routledge, 2023. — 216 p. Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Roman cardinal, a papal diplomat, and an eminent humanist and scholar. Cardinal Bessarion’s life and career were shaped by the tidal wave...
Palgrave, 2004. — 224 p. The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 244 p. — (Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, 9). Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 312 p. This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread and appeal of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between the individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Brian Jeffrey Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization...
Brill, 2022. — 451 p. — (Heterodoxia Iberica 6.1). Martín Del Río (1551-1608) was a remarkably learned Jesuit scholar. His prolific output includes six volumes of Investigations into Magic which sought to be the last word on magic, witchcraft, and allied subjects such as divination and superstition, and a detailed manual of advice for judges and confessors engaged in combatting...
Routledge, 2021. — 365 p. Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and elsewhere. Chapters on Bacon contain references to Galileo and Descartes; the chapter on Castiglione also touches on Montaigne. The book also contrasts...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 341 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 143).
Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, such as the time and causes of its origin, its connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, its...
University of Toronto Press, 2013. — 336 р. — ISBN 978-1-4426-4659-9 Confined by behavioural norms and professional restrictions, women in Renaissance Italy found a welcome escape in an alternative world of play. This book examines the role of games of wit in the social and cultural experience of patrician women from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Beneath...
Routledge, 2017. — 272 p. The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key topics, including the nature of Renaissance demand for...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 296 p. — (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World). This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary...
Routledge, 2017. — 301 p. — (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decoration of the domestic interior - as opposed to patronage of the fine arts (painting, sculpture and...
Routledge, 2017. — 300 p. — (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decoration of the domestic interior - as opposed to patronage of the fine arts (painting, sculpture and...
Texas A&M University Press, 2016. — 288 p. Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken ships for 800 years. Having no idea...
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,...
Brill, 2019. — viii, 228 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 21). In Cristoforo Landino: His Works and Thought Bruce McNair examines the writings, lectures and orations of Landino (1424-98), Renaissance Florence’s famous teacher of poetry and rhetoric. McNair studies Landino’s lecture notes, public orations, poetry, philosophical works and most popular commentaries...
Brill, 2020. — xxx, 662 p.; 170 color ills. — (Intersections 65/1). ‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 456 p. How did Europe's oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print? Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-produced books. But Rome was also a capital city - seat of the Renaissance papacy,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 456 p. How did Europe's oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print? Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-produced books. But Rome was also a capital city - seat of the Renaissance papacy,...
Brill, 2012. — 352 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 216).
This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of European intellectual culture. The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Eugenio Garin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose works...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 350 p. By the sixteenth century, Florence was famous across Europe for its achievements in the arts, letters, and humanist learning. Its intellectual life flourished anew at midcentury with Duke Cosimo and the Accademia Florentina. In this study, Ann Moyer provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late...
Routledge, 2017. — 425 p. Festival culture is an area which has attracted increasing interest in the field of Renaissance studies in recent years. In part the outcome of scholars' focus on the place of the city in the establishment and dissemination of common culture, the attention paid to festivals also arises from the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, which reaches...
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...
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...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 360 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 409 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 366 p. This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 498 p. In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of...
Brill, 2014. — 395 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 171/4; Texts and Sources 171/4). The commentary of John Colet (1467-1519) on Dionysius the Areopagite’s Ecclesiastical Hierarchy adapts a work widely neglected by medieval theologians to the early sixteenth century. Dionysius’s “apostolic” model allowed Colet to set ecclesiastical corruption against the...
Routledge, 2023. — 292 p. Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using...
Routledge, 2023. — 292 p. Described as ‘the most beautiful book ever printed’ previous research has focused on the printing history of the Hypnerotomachia and its copious literary sources. This monograph critically engages with the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia and with Poliphilo as a character within this narrative, placing it within its European literary context. Using...
Brill, 2013. — 251 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 163/2; Texts and Sources 163/2). This book is the first complete and thoroughly commented English translation of Johannes Reuchlin’s Augenspiegel (1511). The translation sheds light on the author’s motive in appealing to the authorities for the preservation of Jewish books at a stage of great cultural...
Venice, 1621, 348 pp. Нравоучительный трактат дубровницкого гуманиста, философа и священника Мавро Орбини, более известного в качестве автора знаменитого сочинения "Славянское царство" Tabula od razgovora, i od dubbia, alli sumgnaa. Koyése uzdarxe ù ovomu Libru Koye su bijlè oné stvari, koye Boog uccinij ù pocétak od sfie ta? Koye stvari Boog úccini, ù oné sédamdána, knisu...
Walter de Gruyter, 2023. — 630 p. The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the nineteenth century within the frame of the studies on Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance. Researchers have only glimpsed the depth of Kallistos’ erudite personality. To date, nearly 130 manuscripts...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 372 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of...
Ashgate, 2014. — 261 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature...
Brill, 2018. — 460 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 208). Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks,...
New Haven, CT; London, UK: Yale University Press, 2011. — 440 pages, 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...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. — 300 p. This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference of the Tudor Symposium, held at the University of Sheffield in 2009. It brings together new explorations of Tudor literature from scholars based all over Europe: France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, and the United Kingdom. The papers cover the long...
Perini Leandro (ed.), Donegà Sara (trad.). — Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2012. — 104 p. — (Biblioteca di storia 15). The Pazzi Consipracy by Angelo Poliziano is the only historical work in the vast production of the famous humanist. He was an eye-witness of the tragic episode that took place in Florence in 1478 in which Giuliano de' Medici was killed and his brother...
Brill, 2017. — 261 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 8). Phineas Fletcher’s epic allegorical poem The Purple Island (1633) combines anatomical and devotional perspectives on the self as the poet explores the relationship between body and soul. The titular island is figured as both body and as England, thus merging religious, corporeal, devotional, and geo-national...
Brill, 2015. — xiv, 461 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 234). In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 272 p. Based on archival work and Quaintance’s exceptional knowledge of Venetian dialect poetry, Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is an unprecedented window into the understudied world of Venetian literature.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 248 p. Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have not been fully accounted for...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 248 p. Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have not been fully accounted for...
New York: The Metropolitan museum of art, 200. — 244 p. Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. - 98 pp.
This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In...
Brill, 2015. — viii, 354 p., 111 ills, of which 71 in colour. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 240/16; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 240/16). The Hieroglyphenkunde by Karl Giehlow published in 1915, described variously by critics as “a masterpiece”, “magnificent”, “monumental” and “incomparable”, is here translated into English for the first time....
Amsterdam University Press, 2015. — 256 p. Emotions depend on language, cultural practices, expectation and moral beliefs. Hate, fear, cruelty and love are always turning history into the history of passion and lust, because emotional life is always ready to overflow intellectual life. This fascinating study of emotion in Renaissance Italy shows that emotions are built and...
Brepols, 2017. — 232 p. — (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26). This book provides a richly documented study of vernacular translators as agents within the literary culture of Italy during the fifteenth century. Through a fresh and careful examination of these early modern translators, Rizzi shows how humanist translators went about convincing readers of the value of...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 336 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the...
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,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 332 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition). First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 332 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition). First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 492 p. — (Études Renaissantes 13). Quelle place occupe l’humaniste André Alciat dans le panorama de la Renaissance européenne ? Comment rendre compte à la fois de la diversité et de l’unité des ouvrages qui composent le corpus alciatique, dont on ne voit souvent que le recueil d’Emblemata, en oubliant la masse des écrits juridiques? Pour...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 288 p. We know the Renaissance as a key period in the history of Europe. It saw the development of court and urban cultures, witnessed the first global voyages of discovery and gave rise to the Reformation and Counter Reformation. It also started with the 'invention' of oil painting, linear perspective and moveable type, all visual technologies....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 288 p. We know the Renaissance as a key period in the history of Europe. It saw the development of court and urban cultures, witnessed the first global voyages of discovery and gave rise to the Reformation and Counter Reformation. It also started with the 'invention' of oil painting, linear perspective and moveable type, all visual technologies....
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 216 p. It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 456 p. Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created. This period, now called the High Renaissance, is generally considered to be one of the high points of...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 320 p. As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 320 p. As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease...
Routledge, 2007. — 424 p. — ISBN 9780415350624. At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original state of innocence or a sign of human progress and mastery over the natural...
Brill, 2002. — 328 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 105). Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) was the most important patron of Italian Renaissance humanism in England during the fifteenth century. This study reconstructs the network of patronage between Gloucester, his Italian middlemen, and several Italian humanists. Analysing their motives for establishing...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 235 p. — (Text und Kontext 32). In literarischen wie auch in nicht-literarischen Texten der Renaissance ist das Verwischen der Grenzen von Fakt und Fiktion ein allgegenwärtiges Phänomen. Über den engeren Bereich der Dichtung hinaus lässt sich ein verstärktes Auftreten von Ambiguisierungsstrategien beobachten, die nicht zuletzt auch den...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 817 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular...
New York: Facts On File, 2005. — XVII, 382 p. — ISBN: 0-8160-5618-8
The period covered by the Renaissance varies, depending on the geographic region or subject under discussion. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the latter 14th century, culminating in England in the early 17th century. Consequently the present book spans two centuries, c. 1400 – c. 1600, emphasizing...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. — 383 S. — (Palingenesia 55). Die an Kontroversen reiche Geschichte der Wissenschaften dürfte keine Auseinandersetzung kennen, die heftiger und einschneidender war als der Streit um das heliozentrische Weltbild. Mehr noch als die Wissenschaftliche Revolution des 17. Jahrhunderts ist der zeitgleiche Siegeszug des Copernicanismus zum Sinnbild einer im...
John Hunt Publishing, 2020. — 304 p. Printed in Utopia examines the bloody era of the Renaissance in all of its contradictions and moments of utopian possibility. From the dissenting religious anarchists of the 17th century, to the feminist verse of Amelia Lanyer and Richard Barnfield's poetics of gay rights. From an analysis of the rhetoric of feces in Martin Luther, to the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. — 176 p. During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century Europe may thus be...
The University of Michigan Press, 2007. — 457 p. During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century Europe may thus be...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 377 p. Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 240 p. During the English Renaissance, the figure of the classical barbarian - identified by ineloquent speech that marked him as a cultural outsider—was recovered for stereotyping Africans. This book advances the idea that language, and not only color or religion, functioned as an important racial code. This study also reveals the way in which...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magic, courtship, and art, amongst other things. On the body, Renaissance men and women often considered hair a signifier of order and civility. Hair style and the head coverings worn by many...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magic, courtship, and art, amongst other things. On the body, Renaissance men and women often considered hair a signifier of order and civility. Hair style and the head coverings worn by many...
Brill, 2020. — xxii, 338 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 14). In Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy, Matteo Soranzo offers the first in-depth study of the life and works of Augurello, Italian alchemist, poet and art connoisseur from the time of Giorgione. Analysed, annotated and translated into English for the first time, Augurello’s poetry...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 184 p. Poetry and Identity in Quattrocento Naples approaches poems as acts of cultural identity and investigates how a group of authors used poetry to develop a poetic style, while also displaying their position toward the culture of others. Starting from an analysis of Giovanni Pontano’s Parthenopeus and De amore coniugali , followed by a discussion...
Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 264 p.
Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes toward race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a world in which learning about the world and its human...
University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 272 p. During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a...
University of Toronto Press, 2010. — 272 p. During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a...
Brill, 2015. — 272 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 236/14; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 236/14). De Amphitheatro ist ein Dialog, den Lipsius und sein Lehrer Florentius führen, während sie durch Rom spazieren. Sie besprechen allerlei Aspekte der Amphitheater, wie zum Beispiel die Götter, denen die Amphitheater gewidmet sind und die Menschen,...
Brill, 2014. — 418 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 186). Analyzing the literature on art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spiritual experiences during the Italian Renaissance. Though scholarly research on these writings has predominantly focused on the...
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 438 p. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different aspect. Sciences would be born -...
Atlantic Books, 2021. — 438 p. Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different aspect. Sciences would be born -...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 384 p. An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 384 p. An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart. It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other...
New edition. — Princeton University Press, 2016. — 224 p. At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 296 p. A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European cultures. This sense...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 296 p. A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European cultures. This sense...
Brill, 2020. — xxx, 220 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 318/49; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 318/49). Lomazzo's Aesthetic Principles Reflected in the Art of his Time explores the work of the Milanese artist-theorist Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538–92) and his influence on the circle of the Accademia della Val di Blenio and beyond....
Truman State University Press, 2008. — 360 p. In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful - at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and...
Truman State University Press , 2008. - 360 p.
In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 400 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).
Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 270 p. The Renaissance is still often wrongly characterized as a period of religious indifference. Contradicting that viewpoint, this book examines confraternities: lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and dominated by artisans and craftsmen, the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 312 p. — (Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, 22). Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and...
Brill, 1993. — viii, 251 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 126). Leonardo Bruni Aretino ( c. 1370-1444) was one of the most gifted and prolific translators of Greek authors in the early Italian Renaissance and a bestseller whose works often circulated in more than a hundred manuscripts. Moreover, Homer ranks as the most admired Greek poet in the Renaissance. The 'Orationes Homeri',...
Brill: 2017. — xii, 254 p. — (Nuncius 1). Barbara Tramelli’s Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura: Color, Perspective and Anatomy investigates the context in which the writings of the painter Giovanni Lomazzo were produced, the types of theoretical and practical knowledge which they conveyed to artists and how painters in the second half of the sixteenth...
Harvard University Press, 2007. — 224 p. Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin Language, which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and Dialectical Disputations, a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His most famous work is...
BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2018. — 250 p. Nella storia delle falsificazioni, il caso più celebre è quello della cosiddetta "Donazione di Costantino", il documento che per tutto il Medioevo fu assunto a fondamento giuridico del potere temporale della Chiesa. Stilato – come reputano i più – nell'VIII secolo dalla Curia romana, il "Constitutum Constantini" ricalcava un'antica...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 240 p. - Presents new and understudied sources that allow us to revisit current understandings of Tudor culture - Offers an interdisciplinary approach in which the performance of music, drama, ritual, food, and dress are studied to reveal the social, political, and religious issues which informed such cultural expressions - Features a dialogue...
Brill, 2014. — ix, 180 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 231). In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions...
Brill, 2020. — xiv, 856 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 15). As the University of Erfurt collapsed in the early 1520s, Hessus faced losing his livelihood. To cope, he imagined himself a shape-changing Proteus. Transforming first into a lawyer, then a physician, he finally became a teacher at the Nuremberg academy organized by Philip Melanchthon. Volume 5 traces this...
Brill, 2016. — 745 p. — (The Renaissance Society of America 6). In this volume, Eobanus Hessus turns from passionate Erasmian into staunch defender of Luther, only to find himself caught in the no-man’s-land between the two titans. Under Erasmus’ spell, he writes "Itinerary of My Journey to Erasmus," "On the Restoration of Studies at Erfurt," epigrams against Edward Lee, and...
Brill, 2016. — 414 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 250/11; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 250/11). Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians’, Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity...
ARC Humanities Press, 2021. — 256 p. This book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects. Two moments...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 238 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Showing how dramatically the conditions and motivations for bearing witness have changed, she reveals the multiplicity of...
Brill, 2024. — xiv, 748 p. — (Aries Book Series 36). Paracelsus (1493-1541) stands at a crossroads associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. His cosmological-meteorological writings exemplify the turning point that concluded the older worldview and opened fresh avenues. His nature philosophy is inseparable from his medicine. This volume encompasses Paracelsus’s writings...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 321 S. — (Palingenesia 117). In der Renaissance wurde das Altgriechische als Literatursprache für das westliche Europa wieder neu entdeckt und durch Humanisten wie Angelo Poliziano und Markos Musuros in eigenen griechischen Dichtungen propagiert. In ihrer Nachfolge begannen auch deutsche Humanisten griechische Briefe zu schreiben und Verse zu...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 248 p. Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes – in Latin translation – when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but underestimate the importance of...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 248 p. Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes – in Latin translation – when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but underestimate the importance of...
Brill Academic Pub, 2000. — 579 p. — (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought 74). This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. — 350 S. — (Studia Albertiana Vindobonensia 1). Der italienische Humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) hat mit seinen gut fünfzig Intercenales ein neulateinisches Meisterwerk aus thematisch und stilistisch sehr abwechslungsreichen Kurzprosastücken geschaffen. Je nach Gesichtspunkt als 'dramatische' Dialoge, Miniaturkomödien, Fabeln,...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 467 p. The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to...
Lexington Books, 2010. — xii, 251 p. — ISBN 978-0-7391-3647-8. The figure of the intellectual looms large in modern history, and yet his or her social place has always been full of ambiguity and ironies. Between Utopia and Dystopia is a study of the movement that created the identity of the universal intellectual: Erasmian humanism. Focusing on the writings of Erasmus and...
Peter Lang, 2004. — 156 p.
Imago Triumphalis: The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Renaissance Rulers examines how independent rulers in fifteenth-century Italy used the motif of the Roman triumph for self-aggrandizement and personal expression. Triumphal imagery, replete with connotations of victory and splendor, was recognized during the Renaissance as a...
Brill, 2017. — 463 p. — (Nuncius 2). Janello Torriani, known in the Spanish-speaking world as Juanelo Turriano (Cremona, Italy ca. 1500 – Toledo, Spain 1585), is the greatest among Renaissance inventors and constructors of machines. Contemporary literates and mathematicians celebrated Janello Torriani and his creations in their writings. It is striking how such fame turned into...
Princeton University Press, 1995. — 405 p. Best-known for his sweeping narrative Histories of His Own Times and for his portrait museum on Lake Como, the Italian bishop and historian Paolo Giovio (1486-1552) had contact with many of the protagonists of the great events he so vividly described--the wars of France, Germany, and Spain, and the sack of Rome. He used the information...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 186 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге рассказывается о формировании итальянского Возрождения – замечательной эпохи в истории европейской цивилизации. Основное внимание уделено анализу отдельных стадий в развитии раннего Возрождения (XIV в. – первая половина XV в.), характеристике творчества Данте, Петрарки, а также взглядов деятелей следующего...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 186 с. В книге рассказывается о формировании итальянского Возрождения - замечательной эпохи в истории европейской цивилизации. Основное внимание уделено анализу отдельных стадий в развитии раннего Возрождения (XIV в. - первая половина XV в.), характеристике творчества Данте, Петрарки, а также взглядов деятелей следующего столетия, в первую очередь Альберти....
М.: Наука, 1979. — 186 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге рассказывается о формировании итальянского Возрождения - замечательной эпохи в истории европейской цивилизации. Основное внимание уделено анализу отдельных стадий в развитии раннего Возрождения (XIV в. - первая половина XV в.), характеристике творчества Данте, Петрарки, а также взглядов деятелей следующего...
М.: Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2008. — 36 с. — (Серия WP6 «Гуманитарные исследования»). Препринт WP6/2008/03. В данной публикации творчество Макиавелли разбирается в совокупности всех его форм и разновидностей: не только великие политические трактаты, но и исторические, драматические, поэтические сочинения – вплоть до служебных записок. Основная проблема –...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2012. — 400 с., илл. — ISBN 978-5-91419-628-5. Одним из источников формирования идей, господствовавших во времена Ренессанса, стало переосмысление исторического прошлого. Портреты двадцати восьми знаменитых людей, украшавшие библиотеку герцога Федерико Монтефельтро, могут рассказать о том, как люди XV столетия воспринимали предыдущие эпохи и что для этих людей...
М.: ГИИ, 2011. – 342 с. – ISBN: 978-5-98287-022-3. В данной работе продолжено исследование Изображения и Слова, осуществленное в предыдущих работах, посвященных первобытному обществу и Древней Греции. Анализ взаимодействия словесных и изобразительных видов искусства Ренессанса выявил определяющее значение Слова в развитии эстетики и теории художественного творчества этой эпохи....
М.: ТОО «Курсив-А», 1994. — 288 с.
В книге собраны работы известного историка культуры, автора многих книг об итальянском Возрождении, выходивших в России, Италии, Германии и т. д., Л. М. Баткина, представляющие собой отклики и раздумья на всевозможные теоретико-культурные и художественные темы.
Неуютность культуры
Два способа изучать историю культуры
Искусствоведение и...
Монография. — М.: Российск. гос. гумат. ун-т, 2000. — 1005 с. — (История и память). — ISBN: 5-7281-0405-3. В книге завершен и объединен в целое, определяемое хронологической последовательностью и сквозной теоретической и методологической задачей, цикл работ, начатый еще в книге «Итальянское Возрождение в поисках индивидуальности» (1989). Содержание книги – по самым высоким...
Монография. — М.: Российск. гос. гумат. ун-т, 2000. — 1005 с. — (История и память). — ISBN 5-7281-0405-3. В книге завершен и объединен в целое, определяемое хронологической последовательностью и сквозной теоретической и методологической задачей, цикл работ, начатый еще в книге «Итальянское Возрождение в поисках индивидуальности» (1989). Содержание книги – по самым высоким...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 200 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге показана творческая среда, создавшая культуру итальянского Возрождения. В биографиях гуманистов, их занятиях, научной переписке обнаруживается неповторимый характер этой культуры. Автор исследует процесс формирования гуманистической интеллигенции, социальные установки, в соответствии с которыми она строила своё...
Москва: Наука, 1978. — 199 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге показана творческая среда, создавшая культуру итальянского Возрождения. В биографиях гуманистов, их занятиях, научной переписке обнаруживается неповторимый характер этой культуры. Автор исследует процесс формирования гуманистической интеллигенции, социальные установки, в соответствии с которыми она строила...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 200 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге показана творческая среда, создавшая культуру итальянского Возрождения. В биографиях гуманистов, их занятиях, научной переписке обнаруживается неповторимый характер этой культуры. Автор исследует процесс формирования гуманистической интеллигенции, социальные установки, в соответствии с которыми она строила своё...
Москва: Наука, 1978. — 209 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге показана творческая среда, создавшая культуру итальянского Возрождения. В биографиях гуманистов, их занятиях, научной переписке обнаруживается неповторимый характер этой культуры. Автор исследует процесс формирования гуманистической интеллигенции, социальные установки, в соответствии с которыми она строила...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 200 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры).
В книге показана творческая среда, создавшая культуру итальянского Возрождения. В биографиях гуманистов, их занятиях, научной переписке обнаруживается неповторимый характер этой культуры. Автор исследует процесс формирования гуманистической интеллигенции, социальные установки, в соответствии с которыми она строила своё...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 272 с. — Серия «Из истории мировой культуры» ISBN: 5-02-008988-5 Книга посвящена одной из величайших эпох в духовной жизни человечества. Эта кратковременная эпоха изобиловала яркими людьми, и впервые сама индивидуальность стала восприниматься как ценнейшее человеческое качество. Автор показывает трагический кризис ренессансного индивидуализма в трактате...
Научно-популярное издание. — М.: Наука, 1989. — 272 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Книга посвящена одной из величайших эпох в духовной жизни человечества. Эта кратковременная эпоха изобиловала яркими людьми, и впервые сама индивидуальность стала восприниматься как ценнейшее человеческое качество. Автор показывает трагический кризис ренессансного индивидуализма в трактате...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 272 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN 5-02-008988-5. Книга посвящена одной из величайших эпох в духовной жизни человечества. Эта кратковременная эпоха изобиловала яркими людьми, и впервые сама индивидуальность стала восприниматься как ценнейшее человеческое качество. Автор показывает трагический кризис ренессансного индивидуализма в трактате...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 272 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN 5-02-008988-5. Книга посвящена одной из величайших эпох в духовной жизни человечества. Эта кратковременная эпоха изобиловала яркими людьми, и впервые сама индивидуальность стала восприниматься как ценнейшее человеческое качество. Автор показывает трагический кризис ренессансного индивидуализма в трактате...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 272 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). — ISBN 5-02-008988-5. Книга посвящена одной из величайших эпох в духовной жизни человечества. Эта кратковременная эпоха изобиловала яркими людьми, и впервые сама индивидуальность стала восприниматься как ценнейшее человеческое качество. Автор показывает трагический кризис ренессансного индивидуализма в трактате...
М.: РГГУ, 1995. – 448 с. В этой книге представлены работы известного специалиста по культуре итальянского Возрождения, написанные в основном в 70-х годах и рассеянные по различным малодоступным изданиям. Собранные произведения обнаруживают продуманный план автора: через судьбы конкретных идей и людей автор стремится прийти к выработке новой общей концепции итальянского...
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М.: Российск. гос. гуманит. ун-т, 1995. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5-7281-0019-8 В этой книге представлены работы известного специалиста по культуре итальянского Возрождения, написанные в основном в 70-х годах и рассеянные по различным малодоступным изданиям. Собранные произведения обнаруживают продуманный план автора: через судьбы конкретных идей и людей автор стремится прийти к...
М.: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 1995. — 448 с. В этой книге представлены работы известного специалиста по культуре итальянского Возрождения, написанные в основном в 70-х годах и рассеянные по различным малодоступным изданиям. Собранные произведения обнаруживают продуманный план автора: через судьбы конкретных идей и людей автор стремится прийти к...
М.: РГГУ, 1995. — 90 с. Содержание: Вступление. Однажды близ Пармы. «По обыкновению Цицерона». Привычка постукивать пером. «Не то, чему следовало произойти, а то, что произошло.» Прерванное письмо и отплывающий корабль. Жить значит сочинять. Ум Петрарки и безумие Дон Кихота. Post scriptum.
Вступ. ст. А. Доброхотова. — Москва: ФТМ, 2024. — 1110 с. В этом томе представлены работы известного специалиста по культуре итальянского Возрождения, написанные в основном в 70-х годах и рассеянные по различным малодоступным изданиям. Собранные произведения обнаруживают продуманный план автора: через судьбы конкретных идей и людей автор стремится прийти к выработке новой общей...
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Сост., предисловие и комментарии Б. С. Кагановича. — СПб.: Мифрил, 1996. — XIV + 256 с. — ISBN: 5-86457-011-7. “Место Ренессанса в истории культуры” — логическое продолжение известной работы П. М. Бицилли, посвященной культуре средних веков. В настоящее издание вошли также статьи “Св. Франциск Ассизский и проблема Ренессанса” (1927) и “Игнатий Лойола и Дон Кихот” (1925). Все...
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М.: Наука, 1999. — 223 с.: 30 ил. — ISBN: 5-02-011744-7. Сборник статей посвящен одной из центральных проблем культуры эпохи Возрождения - представлениям ее выдающихся и рядовых деятелей о сущности и задачах различных типов власти и о ее взаимоотношениях с культурой и искусством в Италии, Германии, Франции, Англии и других странах Европы. В книге освещаются особенности...
М.: Наука, 2010. — 239 с. — (Культура Возрождения). — ISBN: 978-5-02-037370-9. Сборник междисциплинарного типа основан на материалах одноименной международной конференции, организованной Комиссией по культуре Возрождения в октябре 2006 г. В статьях сборника рассматриваются культурные связи между европейскими странами в эпоху Возрождения в разных сферах - образовании, науке,...
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Учебное пособие. — М.: Высшая школа, 1999. — 479 с. — ISBN 5-06-003216-7. Книга является первым учебником по истории культуры стран Западной, Северной и Центральной Европы в эпоху Возрождения. С учетом новейших достижений историографии и культурологии авторами дана широкая панорама духовной, художественной и повседневной жизни Европы в XIV—XVII вв. Основное внимание уделено...
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 2002. — 384 с. — (Труды исторического факультета МГУ: Вып. 21; Сер. II, Исторические исследования: 6). — ISBN: 5-211-04441-X. В монографии поднят ряд широко дискутируемых в современной науке проблем: об особенностях общественной мысли итальянского гуманизма эпохи Возрождения, о соотношении складывавшихся в ней идеалов и их практического преломления, об...
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Харьков: Фолио, 2009. — 530 с. — ISBN: 978-966-03-4725-0
Есть события, явления и люди, которые всегда и у всех вызывают жгучий интерес. Таковы герои этой книги. Ибо трудно найти человека, никогда не слыхавшего о предсказаниях Нострадамуса или о легендарном родоначальнике всех вампиров Дракуле, или о том, что Шекспир не сам писал свои произведения. И это далеко не все загадки...
М.: Изд-во РОССПЭН, 2004. - 208 с.
Небольшая по объему книга немецкого германиста Конрада Бурдаха (1859-1936) относится к тем научным сочинениям, которые, имея своей целью строго определенное конкретное исследование, перерастают его и становятся заметной вехой в поисках новых подходов — в данном случае к одной из важнейших проблем истории и философии европейской культуры —...
М.: Юристь, 1996. - 591 с. — (Лики культуры) Якоб Буркхардт (1818-1897) — швейцарский историк культуры. Его талант в полной мере раскрылся в труде «Культура Возрождения в Италии». Ставшее классическим сочинение Я. Буркхардта не превратилось со временем в некую академическую ценность; оно все еще оказывает живое воздействие на новые поколения читателей. Новый перевод с обширным...
М.: Юристь, 1996. — 591 с. — (Лики культуры). Якоб Буркхардт (1818 - 1897) - швейцарский историк культуры. Его талант в полной мере раскрылся в труде "Культура Возрождения в Италии". Ставшее классическим сочинение Я. Буркхардта не превратилось со временем в некую академическую ценность; оно все еще оказывает живое воздействие на новые поколения читателей. Новый перевод с...
М.: Юристъ, 1996. — 591 с. — (Лики культуры). — ISBN: 5-7357-0020-0. Якоб Буркхардт (1818–1897) – швейцарский историк культуры. Его талант в полной мере раскрылся в труде «Культура Возрождения в Италии». Ставшее классическим сочинение Я. Буркхардта не превратилось со временем в некую академическую ценность; оно всё ещё оказывает живое воздействие на новые поколения читателей....
М.: Юристъ, 1996. — 591 с. — (Лики культуры). — ISBN 5-7357-0020-0. Якоб Буркхардт (1818–1897) – швейцарский историк культуры. Его талант в полной мере раскрылся в труде «Культура Возрождения в Италии». Ставшее классическим сочинение Я. Буркхардта не превратилось со временем в некую академическую ценность; оно всё ещё оказывает живое воздействие на новые поколения читателей....
М.: Юристъ, 1996. — 591 с. — (Лики культуры). — ISBN 5-7357-0020-0. Якоб Буркхардт (1818–1897) – швейцарский историк культуры. Его талант в полной мере раскрылся в труде «Культура Возрождения в Италии». Ставшее классическим сочинение Я. Буркхардта не превратилось со временем в некую академическую ценность; оно всё ещё оказывает живое воздействие на новые поколения читателей....
М.: Юристъ, 1996. — 591 с. — (Лики культуры). — ISBN 5-7357-0020-0. Якоб Буркхардт (1818–1897) – швейцарский историк культуры. Его талант в полной мере раскрылся в труде «Культура Возрождения в Италии». Ставшее классическим сочинение Я. Буркхардта не превратилось со временем в некую академическую ценность; оно всё ещё оказывает живое воздействие на новые поколения читателей....
София: Кралица Маб, 1996. — 133 с. Митът за Ренесанса. Италия - възраждане и новаторство. Ренесансът извън дома. Разпадането на Ренесанса. Заключение. Подборна библиография. Показалец.
Редакционная коллегия: В. М. Володарский, А. Н. Немилов, И. Н. Осиновский, Л. С. Чиколини, А. Э. Штекли — М.: Наука, 1989.—280 с. ISBN: 5-02-012716-7 В книге освещаются вопросы формирования и развития взглядов выдающегося мыслителя эпохи Возрождения, его вклад в развитие передовой европейской культуры. В приложении издания впервые публикуется полный перевод произведения Эразма...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 280 с. — ISBN: 5-02-012716-7. В книге освещаются вопросы формирования и развития взглядов выдающегося мыслителя эпохи Возрождения, его вклад в развитие передовой европейской культуры. В приложении издания впервые публикуется полный перевод произведения Эразма «Жалоба Мира». Для историков, философов, литературоведов, искусствоведов и всех, интересующихся...
Москва: Прогресс, 1986. — 395 с. Читателям этой книги предстоит познакомиться с циклом работ Эудженио Гарэна - одного из крупнейших современных исследователей истории культуры эпохи Возрождения, видного итальянского ученого, который пользуется всемирной известностью. Э. Гарэн - автор более тридцати книг, многие из которых переведены на основные европейские языки и неоднократно...
Перевод с итал. — Вступительная статья и редакция Л. М. Брагиной. — М. : Прогресс, 1986. — 400 с. Книга Эудженио Гарэна, одного из крупнейших современных исследователей истории культуры эпохи Возрождения, видного итальянского ученого, автора более тридцати книг. Цикл его работ под заглавием "Проблемы итальянского Возрождения" на русском языке опубликован впервые. Брагина Л.М....
СПб.: Тип. Меркушева, 1899. — 355 с. Гейгер Людвиг — немецкий историк, родился в 1848 году; профессор Берлинского университета. В обширном труде Людвига Гейгера (Ludwig Geiger) "Ренессанс и гуманизм в Италии и Германии" содержится исчерпывающий рассказ о становлении немецкого гуманизма и его особенностях. Гейгер впервые обратил внимание в своем исследовании на деятелей раннего...
СПб.: Тип. Меркушева, 1899. — 355 с.
Гейгер Людвиг — немецкий историк, родился в 1848 году; профессор Берлинского университета. В обширном труде Людвига Гейгера (Ludwig Geiger) "Ренессанс и гуманизм в Италии и Германии" содержится исчерпывающий рассказ о становлении немецкого гуманизма и его особенностях. Гейгер впервые обратил внимание в своем исследовании на деятелей раннего...
М.: Издательство AH СССР, 1963. — 400 с. Отношение итальянского Возрождения в лице его наиболее видных представителей, в первую очередь гуманистов, а также его народных масс к церкви и религии принадлежит к числу наиболее спорных вопросов исторической науки последних десятилетий. Вопросу этому посвящены десятки обширных монографий, сотни статей, его изучают на съездах и...
М.: Издательство AH СССР, 1963. — 400 с. Отношение итальянского Возрождения в лице его наиболее видных представителей, в первую очередь гуманистов, а также его народных масс к церкви и религии принадлежит к числу наиболее спорных вопросов исторической науки последних десятилетий. Вопросу этому посвящены десятки обширных монографий, сотни статей, его изучают на съездах и...
М.: Голос, 1994 г. 416 стр. ISBN 5-7117-0113-4 "Ужасы на Западе" - книга о том, как страх, испытываемый отдельным человеком - на гильотине, в момент кастрирования в Варфоломеевскую ночь, взгляд на висельника, в бездонную пропасть, из которой поднимается зловонный дым, на труп, повешенный вниз головой … - проникает в общественное сознание и становится коллективным чувством....
М.: Голос, 1994. — 416 с. — ISBN: 5-7117-0113-4. "Ужасы на Западе" - книга о том, как страх, испытываемый отдельным человеком - на гильотине, в момент кастрирования в Варфоломеевскую ночь, взгляд на висельника, в бездонную пропасть, из которой поднимается зловонный дым, на труп, повешенный вниз головой … - проникает в общественное сознание и становится коллективным чувством....
М.: Госиздат, 1924. — 240 с.
Алексей Карпович Дживелегов (1875-1952) - русский историк и искусствовед армянского происхождения, доктор искусствоведения (1936).
Ранние работы Дживелегова посвящены в основном проблемам западноевропейского средневекового города.
В дальнейшем научные интересы Дживелегова затрагивали главным образом историю западноевропейской культуры, особенно...
К. : Вид. дім «Києво-Могилянська академія», 2014. - 129 с. У посібнику подано практичні рекомендації щодо організації роботи студентів протягом курсу, приклади лекцій і питань для семінарських дискусій, рекомендовану бібліографію. Весь матеріал організовано довкола таких тем: їжа і напої, життєвий простір, життєві цикли, одяг і мода, відпочинок, інтимне життя, хвороби, відчуття...
М.: Художественная литература, 1987. — 487 с. От древности и до наших дней люди не переставали вести поиск истины, добра и красоты. Поиск этих всечеловеческих универсалий, идеалов или ценностей не ослабевал никогда. Особенно интенсивно он велся в те времена, когда зарождались новые эпохи, например, в эпоху Возрождения. Крупнейшие современные итальянские мыслители и художники...
Пер. с англ. А. Дементьева. — М.: Издательство книжного магазина «Циолковский», 2020. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-6043673-7-7. Сборник эссе известного английского историка и культуролога Фрэнсис Амелии Йейтс (1889-1981) включает в себя несколько работ разных лет, объединённых ею в одно большое исследование об имперской идее и религиозном аспекте европейских монархий в эпоху...
Пер. с англ.: А. Дементьев. — М.: Издательство книжного магазина «Циолковский», 2020. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-6043673-7-7. Сборник эссе известного английского историка и культуролога Фрэнсис Амелии Йейтс (1889-1981) включает в себя несколько работ разных лет, объединённых ею в одно большое исследование об имперской идее и религиозном аспекте европейских монархий в эпоху...
Пер. с англ.: А. Дементьев. — М.: Издательство книжного магазина «Циолковский», 2020. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-6043673-7-7. Сборник эссе известного английского историка и культуролога Фрэнсис Амелии Йейтс (1889-1981) включает в себя несколько работ разных лет, объединённых ею в одно большое исследование об имперской идее и религиозном аспекте европейских монархий в эпоху...
Пер. с англ.: Александр Дементьев. — М.: Циолковский, 2020. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-6043673-7-7. Сборник эссе известного английского историка и культуролога Фрэнсис Амелии Йейтс (1889-1981) включает в себя несколько работ разных лет, объединённых ею в одно большое исследование об имперской идее и религиозном аспекте европейских монархий в эпоху Ренессанса. Хронологически книга...
М.: Типография А. Л. Поплавского, 1910. — 248 с.
Корелин Михаил Сергеевич (1855-1899) - русский историк.
Что такое "Возрождение"
Петрарка как политик
Первая гуманистка
Леон-Баттиста Альберти и его отношение к науке и искусству
Casa giojosa (Этюд из истории новой школы)
Отношение гуманистов к вещественным памятникам классической древности
М.: Типография Э. Лисснера и Ю. Романа, 1892. — 586 с.
Михаил Сергеевич Корелин (1855-1899) – талантливый историк, профессор Московского университета. Происходил из крестьян московской губернии, окончил историко-филологический факультет Московского университета. Его студенческая работа, в которой исследовалась легенда о Фаусте, была отмечена золотой медалью. В 1885-1887 годах...
М.: Типография Э. Лисснера и Ю. Романа, 1892. — 590 с. Диссертация М. Корелина – это капитальный труд, в котором с исчерпывающей полнотой представлена степень изученности в европейской литературе проблем, связанных с итальянским гуманизмом XIV – первой четверти XV в.в. Автор характеризует достижения европейской науки XVIII-XIX в.в. в изучении итальянского Возрождения. Основное...
2-е изд. — СПб. : Тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1914. — IV, 255 с. Корелин Михаил Сергеевич (1855-1899), русский историк-медиевист. Закончил историко-филологический факультет Московского университета. Ученик В. И. Герье. Профессор Московского университета (с 1892). Корелин занимался изучением эпохи Возрождения в Италии. В 1892 защитил магистерскую диссертацию "Ранний итальянский...
2-е изд. — СПб. : Тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1914. — IV, 168 с. Корелин Михаил Сергеевич (1855-1899), русский историк-медиевист. Закончил историко-филологический факультет Московского университета. Ученик В. И. Герье. Профессор Московского университета (с 1892). Корелин занимался изучением эпохи Возрождения в Италии. В 1892 защитил магистерскую диссертацию "Ранний итальянский...
2-е изд. — СПб. : Тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1914. — V, 448 с. Корелин Михаил Сергеевич (1855-1899), русский историк-медиевист. Закончил историко-филологический факультет Московского университета. Ученик В. И. Герье. Профессор Московского университета (с 1892). Корелин занимался изучением эпохи Возрождения в Италии. В 1892 защитил магистерскую диссертацию "Ранний итальянский гуманизм...
2-е изд. — СПб. : Тип. М. Стасюлевича, 1914. — 38 с. Корелин Михаил Сергеевич (1855-1899), русский историк-медиевист. Закончил историко-филологический факультет Московского университета. Ученик В. И. Герье. Профессор Московского университета (с 1892). Корелин занимался изучением эпохи Возрождения в Италии. В 1892 защитил магистерскую диссертацию "Ранний итальянский гуманизм и...
(Наука XIV - XVI вв. в свете современной науки). - М.: Наука, 1976. — 278 с. В книге дается историко-научный анализ идей Возрождения (представления о пространстве, времени, веществе и т.д.) в XIV - XVI вв. Эти идеи рассматриваются как этап общей истории науки, культуры, философии и сопоставляются с проблемами современной науки, что позволяет по-новому взглянуть на эпоху...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 278 с. — (Библиотека всемирной истории естествознания). В книге дается историко-научный анализ идей Возрождения (представления о пространстве, времени, веществе и т.д.) в XIV - XVI вв. Эти идеи рассматриваются как этап общей истории науки, культуры, философии и сопоставляются с проблемами современной науки, что позволяет по-новому взглянуть на эпоху Возрождения,...
СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2017. — 592 с. Историческое исследование проблемы магии и фигуры мага. Автор утверждает, что пропасть, разделяющая наше восприятие и видение мира человеком Возрождения, не так глубока, как это порой представляется. Необходимо обладать незаурядной смелостью, чтобы утверждать, что маг — это прототип обезличенных систем массмедиа, механизмов по...
СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2017. — 592 с. Историческое исследование проблемы магии и фигуры мага. Автор утверждает, что пропасть, разделяющая наше восприятие и видение мира человеком Возрождения, не так глубока, как это порой представляется. Необходимо обладать незаурядной смелостью, чтобы утверждать, что маг — это прототип обезличенных систем массмедиа, механизмов по...
СПб.: Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2017. — 592 с. Историческое исследование проблемы магии и фигуры мага. Автор утверждает, что пропасть, разделяющая наше восприятие и видение мира человеком Возрождения, не так глубока, как это порой представляется. Необходимо обладать незаурядной смелостью, чтобы утверждать, что маг — это прототип обезличенных систем массмедиа, механизмов по...
Пер. с лат., статьи и примеч. М. А. Юсима. — М.: Языки Славянской Культуры, 2024. — 328 с. В настоящий сборник входят впервые переведенные на русский язык латинские сочинения одного из самых разносторонних писателей эпохи Возрождения, Леона Баттисты Альберти (1404–1472), гуманиста, теоретика искусства и архитектора. Подборка малых произведений Альберти, написанных им в ранний...
Москва: Кучково поле; 2017. — 278 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0814-9. Преподаватель Оксфордского университета Александр Ли предлагает по-новому взглянуть на эпоху Ренессанса: как бы ни соблазнительно было считать его эрой культурного возрождения и прогресса, процветания и художественной красоты, достижения Ренессанса всегда существовали параллельно с мрачной, грязной реальностью....
Москва: Кучково поле, 2017. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9950-0814-9. Преподаватель Оксфордского университета Александр Ли предлагает по-новому взглянуть на эпоху Ренессанса: как бы ни соблазнительно было считать его эрой культурного возрождения и прогресса, процветания и художественной красоты, достижения Ренессанса всегда существовали параллельно с мрачной, грязной реальностью....
СПб.: СПбГУПТД, 2016. — 238 с.
В монографии представлены феноменологические и антологические приемы анализа художественных воплощений пластического и технологического развития образа в творчестве великого художника- импрессиониста Камиля Писсарро. Показан процесс движения замысла в художественной практике. Показана роль графического поиска. Автором рассмотрены приемы компоновки...
Учебное пособие. – Таганрог: Изд-во ТТИ ЮФУ, 2010. – 48 с. В работе рассматриваются предпосылки и основные черты культуры эпохи Возрождения, анализируется творчество ее наиболее ярких представителей. Кратко освещаются географические открытия рассматриваемого периода и их влияние на культурное развитие Европы. Анализируются основные тенденции развития философии, литературы,...
Учебное пособие. - Таганрог: Изд-во ТТИ ЮФУ, 2010. - 48 с. В работе рассматриваются предпосылки и основные черты культуры эпохи Возрождения, анализируется творчество ее наиболее ярких представителей. Кратко освещаются географические открытия рассматриваемого периода и их влияние на культурное развитие Европы. Анализируются основные тенденции развития философии, литературы,...
Л.: Наука, 1979. — 167 с. Монография освещает один из узловых и дискуссионных вопросов истории общественной мысли периода кризиса феодальной формации и перехода от средних веков к новому времени. Автор полемизирует с зарубежными историками, преувеличивающими значение религиозного элемента и клерикализма в деятельности и учениях немецких гуманистов XV в. В книге показано...
Л.: Наука, 1979. — 167 с. Монография освещает один из узловых и дискуссионных вопросов истории общественной мысли периода кризиса феодальной формации и перехода от средних веков к новому времени. Автор полемизирует с зарубежными историками, преувеличивающими значение религиозного элемента и клерикализма в деятельности и учениях немецких гуманистов XV в. В книге показано...
Ленинград: Наука, 1982. — 217 с. Монография посвящена изучению итальянской интеллигенции эпохи Ренессанса. Рассматриваются черты самосознания и формирования гуманистических принципов культуры и культурной деятельности, исследуется вопрос о сравнительных особенностях разных категорий ренессансной интеллигенции, выделен ряд крупных ее представителей (Петрарка, Леонардо да Винчи,...
Ленинград: Наука, 1982. — 217 с. Монография посвящена изучению итальянской интеллигенции эпохи Ренессанса. Рассматриваются черты самосознания и формирования гуманистических принципов культуры и культурной деятельности, исследуется вопрос о сравнительных особенностях разных категорий ренессансной интеллигенции, выделен ряд крупных ее представителей (Петрарка, Леонардо да Винчи,...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2001. — 418 с.: ил. — (Мировая культура). — ISBN 5-224-01327-5. Третья книга серии посвящена истории культуры Средневековья. В ней освещены такие аспекты цивилизаций прошлого, как история, экономика, социальное устройство, религия, наука, искусство, повседневная жизнь. Удобный макет и большое количество иллюстраций помогают быстрее усвоить учебный материал....
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2001. (Мировая культура). Четвертая книга серии посвящена богатейшей истории культуры Возрождения. В ней освещены такие аспекты европейской цивилизации прошлого, как история, экономика, социальное устройство, религия, наука, искусство, повседневная жизнь. Серия предназначена школьникам, студентам и преподавателям в помощь по курсу истории и культурологии.
Курс лекций. – М., 1996. – 703 с. (с илл.) Предлагаемая читателю книга «Литература эпохи Возрождения. Идея универсального человека» представляет собой курс лекций, прочитанный выдающимся советским педагогом, одним из крупнейших представителей нашей филологической науки профессором Борисом Ивановичем Пуришевым. Настоящее издание курса лекций Б.И. Пуришева подготовлено к печати...
Курс лекций. – М., 1996. – 703 с. (с илл.) Предлагаемая читателю книга «Литература эпохи Возрождения. Идея универсального человека» представляет собой курс лекций, прочитанный выдающимся советским педагогом, одним из крупнейших представителей нашей филологической науки профессором Борисом Ивановичем Пуришевым. Настоящее издание курса лекций Б.И. Пуришева подготовлено к печати...
Курс лекций. – М., 1996. – 703 с. (с илл.) Предлагаемая читателю книга «Литература эпохи Возрождения. Идея универсального человека» представляет собой курс лекций, прочитанный выдающимся советским педагогом, одним из крупнейших представителей нашей филологической науки профессором Борисом Ивановичем Пуришевым. Настоящее издание курса лекций Б.И. Пуришева подготовлено к печати...
Предисл. М. Воропановой. — Москва: Высшая школа, 1996. — 365 с. — ISBN 5-06-002302-8. Книга отражает уникальную эрудицию и блестящий лекторский талант крупнейшего советского филолога Б.И. Пуришева (1903-1989). В своей итоговой работе ученый и педагог предлагает читателям еще раз задуматься над феноменом ренессансной литературы в странах Западной Европы. В центре внимания Б.И....
М.: Наука, 1977. — 271 с. Автор изучает период, который составляет особый этап в развитии гуманизма, когда формировались новые воззрения на природу человека, по-новому осмысливалось его достоинство и возможности. Исследуется новое отношение к жизни и смерти, связанное с возросшей ценностью человеческого бытия, показывается, как менялось отношение к миру, который перестает быть...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 271 с. Автор изучает период, который составляет особый этап в развитии гуманизма, когда формировались новые воззрения на природу человека, по-новому осмысливалось его достоинство и возможности. Исследуется новое отношение к жизни и смерти, связанное с возросшей ценностью человеческого бытия, показывается, как менялось отношение к миру, который перестает быть...
Москва; Санкт-Петербург: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2015. — 400 с. Книга дает возможность проследить становление и развитие взглядов гуманистов Возрождения на человека и его воспитание, составить представление о том, как мыслители эпохи Возрождения оценивали человека, его положение и предназначение в мире, какие пути они предусматривали для его целенаправленного формирования...
М.: Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 1996. — 217 с.
ISBN: 5-7281-0151-8
В очерках, связанных сквозной идеей, автор рассматривает народную культуру Германии XIII—XVI вв. как единый и цельный феномен. В книге делается попытка сплошного анализа ритуальных явлений (карнавала, католического культа), речевых и художественно-литературных форм (шванка, фастнахшпиля,...
М.: Наука, 1978. — 280 с.
В основу сборника положены материалы Всесоюзной научной конференции по периодизации культуры западноевропейского Возрождения, проходившей в Москве 8—10 декабря 1975 г. Конференция была организована Комиссией по проблемам культуры Возрождения при Научном Совете по истории мировой культуры АН СССР.
2-е издание. — Л.: Наука. Ленинградское отделение, 1991. — 153 с.: ил. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге дается широкая картина эпохи Возрождения и Реформации в Италии и Германии, характеристика сложных противоречий периода перехода от феодализма к раннебуржуазным отношениям. На этом фоне показана деятельность четырех крупнейших представителей эпохи, которых Энгельс...
2-е издание. — Л.: Наука. Ленинградское отделение, 1991. — 153 с.: ил. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге дается широкая картина эпохи Возрождения и Реформации в Италии и Германии, характеристика сложных противоречий периода перехода от феодализма к раннебуржуазным отношениям. На этом фоне показана деятельность четырех крупнейших представителей эпохи, которых Энгельс...
2-е издание. — Л.: Наука. Ленинградское отделение, 1991. — 153 с.: ил. — (Из истории мировой культуры). В книге дается широкая картина эпохи Возрождения и Реформации в Италии и Германии, характеристика сложных противоречий периода перехода от феодализма к раннебуржуазным отношениям. На этом фоне показана деятельность четырех крупнейших представителей эпохи, которых Энгельс...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 1999. — 485 c. Работа доктора искусствоведения М.Н.Соколова посвящена эпохе Возрождения-барокко (XIV-XVII века). Охватывая в особом, диалогическом (в духе теории М.М. Бахтина) ключе интерпретации разные сферы европейской культуры, равно как и разные мировые эпохи (Античность, Средневековье, Новое время), — которые сосуществуют внутри ренессансного...
М.: Эксмо, 2021. — ISBN 978-5-04-113907-0. Что мы на самом деле знаем об эпохе Возрождения? Эпоха богатых покровителей искусства, развития технологий, открытия новых континентов. Но вместе с тем – время, когда процветали коварство и коррупция, войны между республиками, жестокость, голод, проституция и эпидемии. Историк Кэтрин Флетчер в своей книге демонстрирует истинное лицо...
М.: Эксмо, 2021. — ISBN 978-5-04-113907-0. Что мы на самом деле знаем об эпохе Возрождения? Эпоха богатых покровителей искусства, развития технологий, открытия новых континентов. Но вместе с тем – время, когда процветали коварство и коррупция, войны между республиками, жестокость, голод, проституция и эпидемии. Историк Кэтрин Флетчер в своей книге демонстрирует истинное лицо...
М.: Эксмо, 2021. — 719 с. Что мы на самом деле знаем об эпохе Возрождения? Эпоха богатых покровителей искусства, развития технологий, открытия новых континентов. Но вместе с тем – время, когда процветали коварство и коррупция, войны между республиками, жестокость, голод, проституция и эпидемии. Историк Кэтрин Флетчер в своей книге демонстрирует истинное лицо Ренессанса во всем...
Сост., пер. с нидерл. и предисл. Д. Сильвестрова; Коммент. Д. Харитоновича. — СПб.: Изд-во Ивана Лимбаха, 2009. — 680 с, ил. Книга завершает начатое выходом в свет Осени Средневековья (1988) и продолженное затем Homo ludens / Человеком играющим (1997) издание основных произведений выдающегося нидерландского ученого ЙоханаХёйзинги (1872-1945). Эссе Культура Нидерландов в XVII...
Сост., пер. с нидерл. и предисл. Д. Сильвестрова; Коммент. Д. Харитоновича. — СПб.: Изд-во Ивана Лимбаха, 2009. — 680 с., ил. — ISBN 978-5-89059-128-9.
Книга завершает начатое выходом в свет "Осени Средневековья" (1988) и продолженное затем Homo ludens / Человеком играющим (1997) издание основных произведений выдающегося нидерландского ученого Йохана Хёйзинги (1872-1945). Эссе...
М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф, 2006, - 239 стр. Перевод с английского Левиной Е. Ф.
Автор, Эрик Чемберлин, знакомит нас с эпохой Возрождения, эпохой возврата к ценностям античного мира. Как жили европейцы в XIV веке, как воевали, получали образование, лечились, во что верили и чего боялись. Мирный быт и война, суд и инквизиция, мрачные картины опустошительных эпидемий и празднества...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 239 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-2159-8 Автор, Эрик Чемберлин, знакомит нас с эпохой Возрождения, эпохой возврата к ценностям античного мира. Как жили европейцы в XIV веке, как воевали, получали образование, лечились, во что верили и чего боялись. Мирный быт и война, суд и инквизиция, мрачные картины опустошительных эпидемий и празднества народных карнавалов...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 239 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-2159-8 Автор, Эрик Чемберлин, знакомит нас с эпохой Возрождения, эпохой возврата к ценностям античного мира. Как жили европейцы в XIV веке, как воевали, получали образование, лечились, во что верили и чего боялись. Мирный быт и война, суд и инквизиция, мрачные картины опустошительных эпидемий и празднества народных карнавалов...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2006. — 239 с. — ISBN: 5-9524-2159-8
Автор, Эрик Чемберлин, знакомит нас с эпохой Возрождения, эпохой возврата к ценностям античного мира. Как жили европейцы в XIV веке, как воевали, получали образование, лечились, во что верили и чего боялись. Мирный быт и война, суд и инквизиция, мрачные картины опустошительных эпидемий и празднества народных карнавалов...
Учебно-методические рекомендации. — 2-е издание, исправленное. — Архангельск: Поморский университет, 2006. — 104 с. Учебно-методические рекомендации содержат теоретические сведения о культуре эпохи Ренессанса в историко-философском контексте. Содержательная структура включает пояснительную записку, программу, материалы лекционного курса, планы семинарских занятий, текст и...
М.; СПб.: Университетская книга, 2001. — 720 с. — (Книга света). — ISBN: 5-7914-0023-3. Труд Андре Шастеля, вышедший в конце 50-х годов, является классической работой по истории ренессансной культуры. Он хорошо известен специалистам и, несомненно, в переводе на русский язык привлечет внимание более широкого круга читателей, интересующихся проблемами культуры Возрождения....
М.; СПб.: Университетская книга, 2001. — 720 с. — (Книга света). — ISBN: 5-7914-0023-3. Труд Андре Шастеля, вышедший в конце 50-х годов, является классической работой по истории ренессансной культуры. Он хорошо известен специалистам и, несомненно, в переводе на русский язык привлечет внимание более широкого круга читателей, интересующихся проблемами культуры Возрождения....
М.: Ленанд, 2018. — 320 с. — ISBN 978-5-9710-5036-0. Итальянский Ренессанс заложил основы европейской культуры. В эту эпоху появилась новая гуманистическая философия, были развиты принципы гуманистической этики, обосновывающей достоинство человека и его центральное положение в мире, возникли новые университеты и были достигнуты новые вершины в живописи, поэзии, литературе. В...
М.: Ленанд, 2018. — 320 с. — ISBN 978-5-9710-5036-0. Итальянский Ренессанс заложил основы европейской культуры. В эту эпоху появилась новая гуманистическая философия, были развиты принципы гуманистической этики, обосновывающей достоинство человека и его центральное положение в мире, возникли новые университеты и были достигнуты новые вершины в живописи, поэзии, литературе. В...
М.: Ленанд, 2018. — 320 с. — ISBN 978-5-9710-5036-0. Итальянский Ренессанс заложил основы европейской культуры. В эту эпоху появилась новая гуманистическая философия, были развиты принципы гуманистической этики, обосновывающей достоинство человека и его центральное положение в мире, возникли новые университеты и были достигнуты новые вершины в живописи, поэзии, литературе. В...
М.: Ленанд, 2018. — 320 с. — ISBN 978-5-9710-5036-0. Итальянский Ренессанс заложил основы европейской культуры. В эту эпоху появилась новая гуманистическая философия, были развиты принципы гуманистической этики, обосновывающей достоинство человека и его центральное положение в мире, возникли новые университеты и были достигнуты новые вершины в живописи, поэзии, литературе. В...
Учебное пособие. - Волгоград: ИУНЛ ВолгГТУ, 2015. - 128 с. Рассматриваются процессы развития мировой культуры, литературы, живописи, скульптуры, архитектуры, театра и музыки в эпоху Возрождения. Авторы стремились выявить специфику развития итальянской культуры XIV–XVI вв. и проследить её влияние на формирование западноевропейской культуры, опираясь на разнообразные источники....
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