Reconsidering the Renaissance: Papers from the Twenty-First Annual Conference - Hardcover

State University Of New York At Binghamton Center For Medieval And Ear

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0866981071 ISBN 13: 9780866981071

Publisher: Mrts, 1992

Synopsis

Excerpt from the Introduction: Here are thirty-one essays in various modes and on various subjects important to any discourse of early modern Europe. I use the more familiar term Renaissance in my title, at the risk, of course, that the title will raise the question of the very existence of the phenomenon here considered and reconsidered. Was there a Renaissance? In the sense of a period of rebirth, of easy rejection of the past, of a coherent “period” dominated by certain kinds of world-view and ideological consistency, no there certainly wasn’t. Perhaps, in fact, the concept Renaissance makes sense only as a concept to be reconsidered. None of our papers quarrels with the basic notion that the term describes a phenomenon with certain recognizable features, a definable outline, a generally congruous, even acceptable shape. But an important part of that shape is, in fact, the suppleness of the boundaries, even the assortment of ways in which boundaries recede or dissolve. Th

Edition details

• Publisher: Mrts
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0866981071
• ISBN 13: 9780866981071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Di Cesare Mario A.