Author: Nicolai RubinsteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835794589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Florentine Studies
Author: Nicolai RubinsteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835794589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F.W. Kent
Author: Cecilia HewlettPublisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 9782503552767
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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 of that ever-fascinating city. With his meticulous archival findings and contextual interpretations spanning a scholarly career of more than forty years, Kent engaged with, indeed drove, the scholarly response to many of the issues that have shaped not just our current and emerging understanding of Florence and other urban centres of Italy, but along with that, a more nuanced view of the role of frontier towns and the countryside. Interdisciplinary in scope and grounded in visual, literary, and archival materials, the essays presented here explore a variety of facets of the society of Renaissance Italy, confronting and extending themes that have been emerging in recent decades and exemplified by Kent's work. These themes include the role of kinship and networks, power and agency in Laurentian Florence, gender, ritual, representation, patronage, spirituality, and the generation and consumption of material culture.
The Fruit of Liberty
Author: Nicholas Scott BakerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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 transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward officeholding, clothing, the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.
Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society
Author: Richard T. LindholmPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society is a collection of nine quantitative studies probing aspects of Renaissance Florentine economy and society. The collection, organized by topic, source material and analysis methods, discusses risk and return, specifically the population’s responses to the plague and also the measurement of interest rates. The work analyzes the population’s wealth distribution, the impact of taxes and subsidies on art and architecture, the level of neighborhood segregation and the accumulation of wealth. Additionally, this study assesses the competitiveness of Florentine markets and the level of monopoly power, the nature of women’s work and the impact of business risk on the organization of industrial production.
A Great and Wretched City
Author: Mark JurdjevicPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674368991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli's contempt for Florence's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city's unrealized political potential.
Florentine Studies
Author: Nicolai RubinsteinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780835794589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The Florentine Camerata
Author: Claude V. PaliscaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camerata (Group of music theorists)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Early Modern Ecostudies
Author: I. KampsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230617948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.
Florence and Beyond
Author: John M. NajemyPublisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720382
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Author: Alison BrownPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674050327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. She enhances our understanding of the “revolution” in sixteenth-century political thinking and our definition of the Renaissance within newly discovered worlds and new social networks.