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Author |
: Theodore K. Rabb |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2007-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465008629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465008623 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Days of the Renaissance by : Theodore K. Rabb
There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pin down. Here, for the first time, renowned classicist Theodore Rabb defines the changes that marked the shift away from the Renaissance to Modernity, and explains why these changes took place. The European Renaissance is usually characterized by the belief that a distinct antique civilization represented the ideal for all human endeavors. But there were other unities that defined the era: a shift in the role of the aristocracy from a warrior class to a cultural elite, a growth in education, a more thoughtful probing into the sciences, and the use of the arts for nonreligious purposes.By the dawn of the seventeenth century, four developments had swept over the world, altering these unities and ending the Renaissance: a break with the period's obsession with the past, which invited openness to innovation; a quest for central political control to cure increasing instability; a change in direction of people's passion and enthusiasm; and a new commitment to reason. With thoughtful, wide-lens scholarship and close, detailed looks throughout at the significant moments of change, Rabb offers us a radically new understanding of one of the most pivotal shifts in modern history.
Author |
: James A. Connor |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2009-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0230605737 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780230605732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Judgment by : James A. Connor
A rich exploration of Michelangelo's masterpiece, "The Last Judgment," unlocking the mysteries of a turbulent period in European history
Author |
: Brendan Dooley |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2002-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691048642 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691048649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics by : Brendan Dooley
The pope, furious at such astrological and political effrontery, personally ordered the criminal inquiry that led to Morandi's arrest, trial, and death in prison, probably by assassination.".
Author |
: Thomas V. Cohen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2010-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226112602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226112608 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by : Thomas V. Cohen
Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.
Author |
: Paul Strathern |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2015-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781605988276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1605988278 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death in Florence by : Paul Strathern
By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events—invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths—featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
Author |
: David Scott Wilson-Okamura |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2010-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521198127 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521198127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virgil in the Renaissance by : David Scott Wilson-Okamura
The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.
Author |
: William Manchester |
Publisher |
: Back Bay Books |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2009-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316082792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316082791 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis A World Lit Only by Fire by : William Manchester
A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune
Author |
: William Caferro |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2010-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781444391329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1444391321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contesting the Renaissance by : William Caferro
In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies
Author |
: John Hale |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 676 |
Release |
: 1995-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780684803524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0684803526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by : John Hale
Exploring every aspect of art, philosophy, politics, life and culture between 1450 and 1620, this enthralling panorama examines one of the most fascinating and exciting periods in European history. "A rich, dense book which combines inspiring generalizations with idiosyncratic detail".--The Spectator. Photos.
Author |
: Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1989-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226812274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226812278 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Renaissance Essays by : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper's historical essays, published over many years in many different forms, are now difficult to find. This volume gathers together pieces on British and European history from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries, ending with the Thirty Years War, which Trevor-Roper views as the great historical and intellectual watershed that marked the end of the Renaissance. Covering a wide range of topics, these writings reflect the many facets of Trevor-Roper's interest in intellectual and cultural history. Included are discussions of Renaissance Venice; the arts as patronized by that "universal man," the Emperor Maximilian I; the court of Henry VIII and the ideas of Sir Thomas More; the Lisle Letters and the formidable Cromwellian revolution; the historiography and the historical philosophy of the Elizabethans John Stow and William Camden; religion and the "judicious Hooker," the great doctor of the Anglican Church; medicine and medical philosophy, shaken out of its orthodoxy by Paracelsus and his disciples; literature and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; and the ideology of the Renaissance courts. Trevor-Roper sets his intellectual and cultural history in a context of society and politics: in realization of ideas, the patronage of the arts, the interpretation of history, the social challenge of science, the social application of religion. This volume of essays confirms his reputation as a spectacular writer of history and master essayist.