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Informationen zum Autor Guido Ruggiero is Professor and Chair of the History Department at the University of Miami. His previous publications include Binding Passions: Tales of Magic Marriage and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993), The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985), and Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (1980). He has also edited two series of books: Studies in the History of Sexuality and Selections from Quaderni Storici. Klappentext The idea of the Renaissance as a period of European cultural triumph in which great men flourished has been largely demolished in the last fifty years. This provocative volume brings together some of the most exciting scholars who led this attack, to suggest different ways of thinking about the Renaissance and set new agendas for research. The contributions focus on three major themes: transformative encounters between cultures, ancient and new, high and low, within Europe and beyond; fascination with all things Italian; and social realignment. In examining these themes, the contributors look at the Renaissance from a world perspective, illuminating the negative as well as the positive, and integrating considerations of gender, sex, violence, and non-elite culture. The vision of the Renaissance that emerges is one defined by a wide range of social, political, economic, and cultural developments rather than by the actions of a small cultural elite. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship. * Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm 1 Guido Rumiero PART I THE COURSE of RENAISSANCEE EVENTS 21 1 The Italian Renaissance 23 Gene Brucker 2 The European Renaissance 39 Randolph Starn 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East 55 Linda T. Darling 4 The Renaissance World from the West 70 Matthew Restall 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance 88 Peter Burke PART 11 THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER 105 6 Governments and Bureaucracies 107 Edward Muir 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe 124 James R. Farr 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model 139 Gregory Hanlon 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 156 Robert Muchembled 10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World 173 Joanne M. Feeraro 11 Gender 188 Elissa B. Weaver 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism 208 John Jeffiies Martin PART I11 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WORLDS 225 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes 227 Matthew Ester 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes 243 James S. Amelang 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy 259 Karl Appuhn 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy 279 John A. Marino PART IV CULTURAL WORLDS 297 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World 299 David C. Gentilcore 18 High Culture 316 Ingrid D. Rowland 19 Religious Cultures 333 R. Po-chia Hsia 20 Art 349 Loren Partridge 21 Literature 366 James Grantham Turner 22 Political Ideas 384 John M. Najemy 23 The Scientific Renaissance 403 William Eamon PART V ANTI-WORLDS 425 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger 427 Mary Lindeman...
