The Renaissance (Arts, Culture & Society in the Western World S.)

by Robin Kirkpatrick

• ISBN13: 9780582294448
• ISBN10: 0582294444
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: LONGMAN

Table of Contents

General Introduction	p. ix
Preface	p. x
List of Illustrations	p. xii
Notes on the Cover	p. xviii
Introduction: Renaissance Questions	p. 1
Issues and Interpretation	p. 1
Europe United?	p. 5
Historical Outlines	p. 11
Artistic Continuities	p. 17
Renaissance Past and Future	p. 24
Thought and Context	p. 29
Cities, Spaces and Institutions	p. 31
The Piazza and Political Imagining	p. 31
The Florentine Formula	p. 34
Courtly Variations: The Example of Urbino	p. 40
Dynasties, Nations and States: The French Example	p. 47
Cities of God: Utopia, Geneva and Rome	p. 54
The Domain of Taste	p. 66
Education, Imitation and Creation	p. 73
Book-Learning in the Renaissance	p. 73
'I do not adore Aristotle'	p. 82
Platonic Possibilities: Ficino and Cusanus	p. 88
Texts and Text-Books: Valla and Ramus	p. 100
Reformation and the Renaissance Individual	p. 106
The Limits of Humanism	p. 106
Erasmus, Luther and St Ignatius	p. 109
From Purgatory to Pyre: Conscience in the Middle Ages and Renaissance	p. 125
Science, Art and Language: a Conclusion to Part One	p. 136
Renaissance Rationality	p. 136
Scientific Humanism and Religious Science	p. 139
Leonardo, Van Eyck and Vesalius	p. 145
The Crux of Language: Bruno and Montaigne	p. 150
The Arts	p. 163
The Figurative Arts	p. 165
Competitive Eyes	p. 165
Seeing in the Renaissance	p. 174
Experimentation in Matter and Form	p. 178
The Divine Artist	p. 191
Movements in Mannerism	p. 210
Lyric, Epic and Pastoral	p. 220
Petrarchan Possibilities	p. 220
The Lyric: Passion and Penitence	p. 230
The Epic Imagination: Tasso, Camoes and Spenser	p. 250
Pastoral Experimentation	p. 261
Music	p. 269
A Flemish Polyphony	p. 269
Dufay and Josquin in Italy	p. 281
Theory, Symbol and Passion	p. 294
Words and Music in the Sixteenth Century	p. 298
Prose Fiction and Theatre	p. 315
The Popular Voice: Carnival and Boccaccio	p. 315
Novelle and Plays: Framing Gossip	p. 320
Rabelais, Cervantes and Textual Riot	p. 329
Shakespeare the Critic	p. 346
A Tragic Afterword	p. 363
Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 379
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