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The Renaissance in Europe: a reader
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Yale University Press
Publication Date
2000.
Language
English
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CB361.R386 2000
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9780300082234
9780300082180
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Section 1 Impact of Humanism 3 --
1 'From Burckhardt to Greenblatt: New Historicisms and Old' / Richard Danson Brown 4 --
2 'Inventing Sincerity, Refashioning Prudence: The Discovery of the Individual in Renaissance Europe' / John Martin 11 --
3 'The Significance of "Civic Humanism" in the Interpretation of the Italian Renaissance' / Albert Rabil, Jr 31 --
4 'The emergence of print culture in the West: "Defining the initial shift" / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 55 --
5 'Learned Culture and Popular Culture in Renaissance Italy' / Peter Burke 73 --
6 'The transformation of Platonic love in the Italian Renaissance' / Jill Kraye 81 --
7 'Valla's De voluptate ac de vero bono [Of the True and False Good] and Erasmus' Stultitiae Laus [In Praise of Folly]: Renewing Christian Ethics' / Letizia Panizza 88 --
8 'Machiavell's political philosophy in The Prince' / Maureen Ramsay 98 --
Section 2 Courts, Patrons and Poets 113 --
9 'Sight, sound and ceremony in the chapel of Galeazzo Maria Sforza' / Evelyn S. Welch 114 --
10 'Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy' / Michael Baxandall 129 --
11 'Art as a Cultoral System' / Clifford Geertz 138 --
12 'Style' / Meyer Schapiro 144 --
13 'The Diffusion of the Italian Renaissance Style in Western European Art' / Earl Rosenthal 149 --
14 'The Foreign Kings of Hungary' / C. A. Macartney 160 --
15 'Physical conditions of the London stage' / Andrew Gurr 175 --
16 'The Merchants and the Jew of Venice: Wealth's communion and an intruder' / C. L. Barber 180 --
17 'Jessica's monkey; or The Goodwins' / Ruth Nevo 201 --
Section 3 Challenges to Authority 211 --
18 'Art or Idol? Reilgibus Sculpture' / Jeffrey Chipps Smith 212 --
19 'Progress towards Reform' / Susan Karant-Nunn 218 --
20 'Luther Myth: a Popular Historiography of the Reformer' / Robert W. Scribner 228 --
21 'Excluding the Reformation' / Henry Kamen 239 --
22 'Lazarillo de Tormes: Erasmian Satire or Protestant Reform?' / Thomas Hanrahan 254 --
23 'Renaissance Poverty and Lazarillo's Family: the Birth of the Picaresque Genre' / Javier Herrero 259 --
24 'Lazarillo de Tormes: The Case of the Purloined Letter' / Peter N. Dunn 269 --
25 'Luther and Vesalius' / Andrew Cunningham 275 --
26 'The old and the new' / Nancy G. Siraisi 287 --
27 'Wittenberg anatomy' / Vivian Nutton 290 --
28 'Paracelsus: medicine as popular protest' / Charles Webster 300 --
29 'The philosophy, medicine and theology of Paracelsus' / Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 314 --
30 (i) Galileo's early career (ii) Galileo and the Medicean Stars / Mario Biagioli 321 --
31 'Witchcraft and magic in Renaissance Italy: Gianfrancesco Pico and his Strix' / Peter Burke 327 --
32 'Manifold impieties: the social setting' / Anthony Harris 342 --
33 'Instrument of mischief: Tragi-comedy in The Witch of Edmonton' / Anthony Harris 352 --
34 'Witchcraft and the threat of the familiar' / Frances E. Dolan 361.
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