A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

by Ruggiero, Guido

• ISBN13: 9781405157834
• ISBN10: 1405157836
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship. Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive. Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective. Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite. Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.

Author Biography

Guido Ruggiero is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Miami. His previous publications include Binding Passions: Tales of Magic Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993), The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985), and Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (1980). He has also edited two series of books: Studies in the History of Sexuality and Selections from Quaderni Storici.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	viii
Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm	1	(20)
Guido Ruggiero
PART I THE COURSE OF RENAISSANCE EVENTS	21	(84)
The Italian Renaissance	23	(16)
Gene Brucker
The European Renaissance	39	(16)
Randolph Starn
The Renaissance and the Middle East	55	(15)
Linda T. Darling
The Renaissance World from the West	70	(18)
Matthew Restall
The Historical Geography of the Renaissance	88	(17)
Peter Burke
PART II THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER	105	(120)
Governments and Bureaucracies	107	(17)
Edward Muir
Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe	124	(15)
James R. Farr
Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model	139	(17)
Gregory Hanlon
Manners, Courts, and Civility	156	(17)
Robert Muchembled
Family and Clan in the Renaissance World	173	(15)
Joanne M. Ferraro
Gender	188	(20)
Elissa B. Weaver
The Myth of Renaissance Individualism	208	(17)
John Jeffries Martin
PART III SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WORLDS	225	(72)
Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes	227	(16)
Matthew Vester
Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes	243	(16)
James S. Amelang
Tools for the Development of the European Economy	259	(20)
Karl Appuhn
Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy	279	(18)
John A. Marino
PART IV CULTURAL WORLDS	297	(128)
The Subcultures of the Renaissance World	299	(17)
David C. Gentilcore
High Culture	316	(17)
Ingrid D. Rowland
Religious Cultures	333	(16)
R. Po-chia Hsia
Art	349	(17)
Loren Partridge
Literature	366	(18)
James Grantham Turner
Political Ideas	384	(19)
John M. Najemy
The Scientific Renaissance	403	(22)
William Eamon
PART V ANTI-WORLDS	425	(81)
Plague, Disease, and Hunger	427	(17)
Mary Lindemann
Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age	444	(16)
Linda Woodbridge
Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World	460	(15)
Thomas F. Arnold
Witchcraft and Magic	475	(16)
Guido Ruggiero
The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance	491	(15)
Ian Frederick Moulton
Consolidated Bibliography	506	(37)
Index	543