Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background

Klappentext This book provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was! what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical! and he shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas! rooted firmly in the general history of the period! and not as a static and isolated phenomenon. Zusammenfassung A fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history! this book will appeal to the general reader as well as to students of history and art. This second edition! which has been revised and updated by the author! gives more ample treatment to the 'reception' of the Renaissance in England. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The Renaissance as a period in European history; 3. The problems of Italian history; 4. Politics and culture in fourteenth-century Italy; 5. The nature of Renaissance values in the fifteenth century; 6. The reception of the Renaissance in the north; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Denys Hay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.1977
• EAN: 9780521291040
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29104-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Wiles Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918