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Geographically and temporally wide-ranging, this collection treats the Renaissance not as a static concept but as one of ongoing change within an international framework, taking as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people and across social, religious, political and phys
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Introduction: The Renaissance Question
William Caferro
Part I: Disciplines and Boundaries
1 - The ‘Economic’ Thought of the Renaissance
Germano Maifredi
2 - A Makeshift Renaissance: North India in the "Long" Fifteenth Century
Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University)
3 - ‘By Imitating Our Nurses:’ Latin and Vernacular in the Renaissance
Eugenio Refini
4 - Individualism and the Separation of Fields of Study
William Caferro
5 - Riddles of Renaissance Philosophy and Humanism
Timothy Kircher
Part II: Encounters and Transformations
6 - Raw Materials and Object Lessons
Timothy McCall and Sean Roberts
7 - Imagination and the Remains of Roman Antiquity
Will Stenhouse
8 - Sporus in the Renaissance, or The Eunuch as Straight Man
Katherine Crawford
9 - Heritable Identity Markers, Nations and Physiognomy
Carina Johnson
10 - Biondo Flavio on Ethiopia: Processes of Knowledge Production in the Renaissance
Samantha Kelly
11 - Traditions of Byzantine Astrolabes in Renaissance Europe
Darin Hayton
12 - Reading Machiavelli in Sixteenth Century Florence
Ann Moyer
Part III: Society and Environment
13 - Why Visit the Shops: Taking up Shopping as a Pastime
Susan Stuard
14 - Throwing Aristotle from the Train: Women and Humanism
Sarah Ross
15 - Mechanisms for Unity: Plagues and Saints
About the author
William Caferro is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His research has focused primarily on economy and violence in medieval and Renaissance Italy, and most recently on Dante and Empire. His latest book, Contesting The Renaissance (2011), traces the meaning and use of the term "Renaissance" in the major debates of the historiography. He is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) and is foreign fellow of the Deputazione di Storia Patria di Toscana and l'Associazione di Studi Storici Elio Conti.
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Geographically and temporally wide-ranging, this collection treats the Renaissance not as a static concept but as one of ongoing change within an international framework, taking as its unifying theme the idea of exchange and interchange through the movement of goods, ideas, disease and people and across social, religious, political and phys
