The Renaissance Italy and Abroad [Paperback]

Including the most recent scholarship on the history of the Renaissance, this book examines politics, society, identity, gender, religion and science, and focuses on not only Italian developments in this crucial period of change, but also on aspects in Germany, France and England.

With contributions from the most highly regarded scholars in the field, the book studies humanists, artists and people and explores how how these people and places helped shape modernity.

From the history of the body, to the new ways of thinking about the relation of culture to power, students of the Renaissance will find this an essential addition to their reading lists.

1 Introduction - The Renaissance: Between Myth and History - John Jeffries Martin  Part 1: The Renaissance paradigm in crisis  2. The Renaissance and the Drama of Western History - William James Bouwsma  Part 2: Politics, language and power  3. The Dialogue of Power in Florentine Politics - John M. Najemy  4. The 'Baron Thesis' - James Hankins  5. Geographies of Power: the Territorial State in Early Modern Italy - Elena Fasano Guarini  Part 3: Individualism, identity and gender  6. Burcjhardy Revisited from Social History - Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.  7. Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture - Stephen Greenblatt  8. Gender and Sexual Culture in Renaissance Italy - Michael Rocke  9. The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice - Virginia Cox  Part 4: Art, Science and Humanism  10. Historia and Istoria: Alberti's Terminology in ContexlË