The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader (Renaissance in Europe series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300082185 ISBN 13: 9780300082180

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

How important was the Renaissance in the development of Western civilization? To what extent did the Renaissance mediate or challenge tradition and notions of authority? What factors determined the reception of Renaissance culture in particular areas and particular disciplines? This stimulating book is a collection of seminal readings by eminent scholars who explore aspects of the Renaissance from various perspectives, assessing current knowledge and expounding their own views.

The authors address the themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture among different social orders and between men and women. And they support or query ideas expressed in Jacob Burckhardt’s classic 1860 study of the Renaissance, speculating in particular on what his ?discovery of the individual” really meant for the construction of self in the late medieval/early modern context. This collection is an essential reference for any student of the Renaissance.

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Yale University, in association with the Open University in London, has released three volumes of its five-volume "The Renaissance: A Cultural Enquiry" series, which will comprise two anthologies and three course texts. The goal of the series is to explore the Renaissance from the perspectives of political thought, history, philosophy, religion, music, art, drama, and literature. The first volume, The Impact of Humanism, examines the continuing relevance of Jacob Burckhardt's seminal 1860 work, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Phaidon Pr., 1995). The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology presents a selection of primary sources illuminating a wide range of subjects, from a Sforza banquet menu to Luther's The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. The third volume, The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader, considers the importance of the Renaissance to the development of Western Civilization by presenting over 30 readings by leading scholars on the themes of humanism, authority, and the roles of men and women. The last two volumes, Courts, Patrons and Poets and Challenges to Authority, will be published in fall 2000. This thoroughgoing series will be of use primarily to students and scholars of the Renaissance. Recommended for academic libraries with significant collections of Renaissance studies.DRobert Andrews, Duluth P.L., MN
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Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300082185
• ISBN 13: 9780300082180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Whitlock Mr. Keith