The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology (Renaissance in Europe Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300082223 ISBN 13: 9780300082227

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Renaissance, as both a period and a concept, continues to generate lively debate about its origins and influence on European culture and thought. Recent research has emphasized the need to look again at original texts, documents, and artifacts. Any new evaluation of the historical significance of the Renaissance requires attention to these kinds of primary evidence. This anthology responds to the impetus with an important collection of primary sources, selected to reflect the richness and wide variety of Renaissance studies.

The original texts are arranged thematically, and each is introduced by a brief headnote describing the author and the source. Sections of the volume are devoted to humanism and its impact on music, philosophy, and politics; Renaissance court culture; poetry and drama in Renaissance Britain; the Reformation; and science, magic, and witchcraft. Some of the texts are short and familiar, others―such as an early sixteenth-century demonology by Italian humanist Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola―appear here in translation for the first time. The anthology is illustrated throughout.

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Peter Elmer is staff tutor and lecturer in the History of Science and Technology at The Open University. Nick Webb is staff tutor and lecturer in Art History at The Open University. Roberta Wood is course manager in the Arts Faculty at The Open University.

From Library Journal

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0300082223
• ISBN 13: 9780300082227
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Elmer Peter, Webb Nicholas, Wood Roberta