The Renaissance World

by Jeffries Martin; John

• ISBN13: 9780415332590
• ISBN10: 0415332591
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world. Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged. Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade. Beginningwith a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ending with its lasting influence, this book is an invaluable read, which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again.

Table of Contents

From Christendom to Europe

Rome at the Center of a Civilization

The Ottoman Empire and Europe

Africa, American and Conquest

Europe at the Center of the World

The IDea of Humanity in the Age of Discovery

Economic and Social Tranformations

Peasants and the Agrarian Regime

The Growth of Cities

The Black Death: Tragedy and Transformation

Social Hierachies and the Family

The manufacture and Movement of Goods

Power and Politics

Monarch and the Court

Republics

Empires

Diplomacy and Espionage

War

Authority and Beliefs

Places of the Sacred

Witchcraft

Religions on the Margins: Jews, Heretics and Muslims

Ideas of Reform

Christianity Abroad

Passions of the Intellect

Encounters with Antiquity

New Worlds and the Remaking of Knowledge

Anatomies North and South

Science and the People

Machiavelli and More

The Visual Arts Between Patronage and Power

Patronage and Virtue

Ways of Seeing

Art and Ritual

Portraits and Self-Portraits

Representations of Power

Pleasures of the Imagination

Authors and Readers

Creativity and the imagination

Genres of Pleasure

Music and the Court

Shakespeare

After the Renaissance

Economy and Society at the End of the Renaissance

The Fragmentation of Belief

The Politics of Order

The Sun at the Center of the World

In the Ruins: The Future of the Past

Epilogue

Index

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