Contesting the Renaissance

by Caferro, William

• ISBN13: 9781405123709
• ISBN10: 1405123702
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 Biography

William Caferro is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His previous publications include Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena (1998), The Spinelli: Merchants, Patrons and Bankers in Renaissance Florence (2001), and John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
The Renaissance Question	p. 1
Individualism: Who Was the Renaissance Man?	p. 31
Gender: Who Was the Renaissance Woman?	p. 61
Humanism: Renovation or Innovation? Transmission or Reception?	p. 98
Economy: Hard Times or Prosperity?	p. 126
Politics: The Emergence of the Modern State?	p. 156
Faith and Science: Religious or Rational?	p. 185
Further Reading	p. 213
Index	p. 230
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