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Looking to rent a book? Rent A Short History of Renaissance and Reformation Europe [ISBN: 9780136056287] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Zophy, Jonathan W.. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.
Jonathan W. Zophy is a professor of history at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where he teaches courses in Renaissance and Reformation history. A winner of several teaching awards, his previous books are: Patriarchal Politics and Christoph Kress (1484-1535) of Nuremberg, The Social History of the Reformation (edited with Lawrence P. Buck), The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, and An Annotated Bibliography of the Holy Roman Empire.
| Preface | |
| Introduction: The Best and Worst of Times | |
| The Problem of the Renaissance The Reformation Dances over Fire and Water? | |
| General Chronology Further Reading | |
| The Peoples of Europe | |
| The Peasantry A Culture of Poverty: Village Life | |
| The Continuities of Life for Men, Women, and Children Town Dwellers Daily Life Urban Women Social Tensions | |
| The Rise of the Capitalists Jacob Fugger the Rich Muslims Slaves from Africa and the Levant Jews | |
| The Nobility Mercenary and Robber Nobles The Refinement of Manners The Clergy Further Reading Notes | |
| An Age of Disasters | |
| The Black Death, 1347-1350 Peasant and Artisan Revolts Troubles in the Church | |
| The Babylonian Captivity, 1305-1350 | |
| The Western Schism of 1378-1417 | |
| The Burning of Jan Hus (c. 1372-1415) | |
| The Hussite Revolt The Hundred Years War, 1455-1485 | |
| Chronology Further Reading Notes | |
| Italy: Home of the Renaissance Florence: The Most Beautiful of Cities | |
| The Medici in Florence | |
| The Rise of the Medici Banking Empire | |
| The Magnificent Lorenzo (1449-1492) | |
| The Pazzi Plot of 1478 | |
| The Fall of the Medici | |
| The Fiery Domican: Savonarola | |
| The Return of the Medici Rome and the Papal States Cola di Rienzo (1313-1354) | |
| Renaissance Popes Naples and Sicily | |
| The Reigns of Joanna II (1414-1435), Alfonso V (1416-1458), and Ferrante I (1458-1494) | |
| The Power of Milan | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Sforza, 1450-1499 | |
| The Mantua of Issabella d Este Duke Federigo s Urbino Venice | |
| The Queen of the Adriatic Venetian Politics and Society Venice and the Arts | |
| The Culture of Renaissance Humanism in Italy Setting the Agenda: Early Renaissance Humanists Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) | |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
| Civic Humanists Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) | |
| Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) The Illustrious Lorenzo Valla (c. 1407-1457) | |
| Women Humanists Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) | |
| Laura Cereta (1469-1499) | |
| Humanists as Philosophers, Historians, and Social Theorists Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) | |
| Lions and Foxes: Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
| Machiavelli s Writings Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) | |
| Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) | |
| The Flowering of Italian Literature The Poet as Blackmailer: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) | |
| The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco (1546-1591) | |
| Vittoria Colonna Chronology Further Reading Notes | |
| Painting in Renaissance Italy Early Renaissance Painting: Giotto Masacio (1401-1428) | |
| A Distinctive Style: Sandro Botticelli (c. 1444-1510) | |
| The High Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) | |
| as a Painter Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) | |
| The Prolific Titian (c. 1488-1576) | |
| Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625) | |
| Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1632) | |
| Chronology Further Reading Notes | |
| Renaissance Sculpture, Architecture, and Music The Fatiguing Art: Sculpture Lorenzo Ghiberti (c. 1381-1455) | |
| Donatello (1386-1466) | |
| Michelangelo as a Sculptor Architecture Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) | |
| Michelozzo Miche | |
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