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European Renaissance 1400-1600

English · Hardback

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List of contents

INTRODUCTION: RENAISSANCE QUESTIONS; Part 1 THOUGHT AND CONTEXT; Chapter 1 CITIES, SPACES AND INSTITUTIONS; Chapter 2 EDUCATION, IMITATION AND CREATION; Chapter 3 REFORMATION AND THE RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUAL; Chapter 4 SCIENCE, ART AND LANGUAGE: A CONCLUSION TO Part ONE; Part 2 THE ARTS; Chapter 5 THE FIGURATIVE ARTS; Chapter 6 LYRIC, EPIC AND PASTORAL; Chapter 7 MUSIC; Chapter 8 PROSE FXCTXON AND THEATRE;

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Robin Kirkpatrick

Summary

With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal attention to the strangeness and often unresolved tensions that lay beneath the surface of that culture.Insisting on a European rather than purely Italian viewpoint, he embraces Renaissance thinking and culture in all its diversity: from Northern thinkers such as Cusanus, Luther and Calvin, to the painting of Van der Weyden and El Greco, and the music of the Flemish musicians, Josquin des Prez and Orlando Lassus. Special attention is also paid to the unique contribution made by Margueritte of Navarre to the development of humanist culture. The book concludes with a study of Shakespeare in which his plays are viewed as a searching critique of some of the main principles of Renaissance culture.

Product details

Authors Kirkpatrick, Robin Kirkpatrick
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.08.2016
 
EAN 9781138150010
ISBN 978-1-138-15001-0
No. of pages 408
Series Arts Culture and Society in the Western World
Arts Culture and Society in the Western World
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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