The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover

Dandelet, Thomas James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521769930 ISBN 13: 9780521769938

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as its aim the revival of the cultural and political grandeur of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. Imperial humanism, a distinct form of humanism, emerged in the earliest stages of the Italian Renaissance as figures such as Petrarch, Guarino, and Biondo sought to revive and advance the example of the Caesars and their empire. Originating in the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Rome, this movement also revived ancient imperial iconography in painting and sculpture, as well as Vitruvian architecture. While the Italian princes never realized their dream of political power equal to the ancient emperors, the Imperial Renaissance they set in motion reached its full realization in the global empires of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, France, and Great Britain.

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Book Description:

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with the growing literature on global empires in early modern Europe. Thomas James Dandelet examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of this imperial Renaissance in Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then then traces its full-scale political realization in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish, French, and British empires.

About the Author:

Thomas James Dandelet is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at Bard College and Princeton University. Dandelet was awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1999 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2007. His first book, Spanish Rome, 1500-1700 (2001), won the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference Roland Bainton Prize for best book in history and theology in 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0521769930
• ISBN 13: 9780521769938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311