The Renaissance: Italy and Abroad

This volume introduces the most recent scholarship on the history of the Renaissance. It considers not only humanists and artists, but also look as people from all classes, men and women alike. The themes covered include politics and society, identity and gender, religion and science. The focus is on Italian developments but aspects of the Renaissance in Germany France and England are also covered.

List of illustrations

x

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

A Renaissance chronology

xvi

Introduction -- The Renaissance: Between Myth and History

1

(24)

John Jeffries Martin

Part I The Renaissance paradigm in crisis

25

(18)

The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History

27

(16)

William James Bouwsma

Part II Politics, language and power

43

(62)

The Dialogue of Power in Florentine Politics

45

(21)

John M. Najemy

The `Baron Thesis'

66

(23)

James Hankins

Geographies of Power: The Territorial State in Early Modern Italy

89

(16)

Elena Fasano Guarini

Part III Individualism, identity and gender

105

(92)

Burckhardt Revisited from Social History

107

(17)

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture

124

(15)

Stephen Greenblatt

Gender and Sexual Culture in Renaissance Italy

139

(20)

Michael Rocke

The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice

159

(38)

Virginia Cox

Part IV Art, science and humanism

197

(80)

Historia and Istoria: Alberti's Terminology in Context

199

(25)

Anthony Grafton

The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy

224

(29)

Katharine Park

Friendship Portrayed: A New Account of Utopia

253

(24)

David Wootton

Part V Religion: tradition and innovation

277

(40)

The Virgin on the Street Corner: The Place of the Sacred in Italian Cities

279

(18)

Edward Muir

`Civilized Religion': From Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-Reformation

297

(20)

Euan Cameron

Renaissance readings

317

(4)

Index

321

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