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The Oxford illustrated history of the Renaissance / edited by Gordon Campbell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2019Description: viii, 506 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198862666
  • 0198862660
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Gordon Campbell -- Humanism and the classical tradition / Peter Mack -- War and the state, c.1400-c.1650 / David Parrott -- Religion / Stella Fletcher -- The civilization of the Renaissance / François Quiviger -- Art and architecture in Italy and beyond / Francis Ames-Lewis -- Art and architecture in Flanders and beyond / Paula Nuttall and Richard Williams -- The performing arts : festival, music, drama, dance / Margaret M. McGowan -- Vernacular literature / Warren Boutcher -- Craft and technology in Renaissance Europe / Pamela O. Long and Andrew Morrall -- The Renaissance of science / Paula Findlen -- The global Renaissance / Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Peter Burke.
Summary: The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation--from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, right through to the English literary Renaissance in the first half of the seventeenth century.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?

Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance have changed considerably in recent decades. The glories of Florence and the art of Raphael and Michelangelo remain an important element of the Renaissance story, but they are now only a part of a much wider story which looks beyond an exclusive focus on high culture, beyond the Italian peninsula, and beyond the fifteenth century.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance tells the cultural history of this broader and longer Renaissance: from seminal figures such as Dante and Giotto in thirteenth-century Italy, to the waning of Spain's 'golden age' in the 1630s, and the closure of the English theatres in 1642, the date generally taken to mark the end of the English literary Renaissance.

Geographically, the story ranges from Spanish America to Renaissance Europe's encounter with the Ottomans--and far beyond, to the more distant cultures of China and Japan. And thematically, under Gordon Campbell's expert editorial guidance, the volume covers the whole gamut of Renaissance civilization, with chapters on humanism and the classical tradition; war and the state; religion; art and architecture; the performing arts; literature; craft and technology; science and medicine; and travel and cultural exchange.

"First published 2019. First published in paperback 2021"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Gordon Campbell -- Humanism and the classical tradition / Peter Mack -- War and the state, c.1400-c.1650 / David Parrott -- Religion / Stella Fletcher -- The civilization of the Renaissance / François Quiviger -- Art and architecture in Italy and beyond / Francis Ames-Lewis -- Art and architecture in Flanders and beyond / Paula Nuttall and Richard Williams -- The performing arts : festival, music, drama, dance / Margaret M. McGowan -- Vernacular literature / Warren Boutcher -- Craft and technology in Renaissance Europe / Pamela O. Long and Andrew Morrall -- The Renaissance of science / Paula Findlen -- The global Renaissance / Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Peter Burke.

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation--from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, right through to the English literary Renaissance in the first half of the seventeenth century.

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