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- catalog abstract ""In this collection the concept of the Renaissance is interrogated through the work of scholars who have supported or queried the ideas formulated in Jacob Burckhardt's classic study The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, or developed alternative interpretations." "The Reader addresses the themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture among different social orders and between men and women. And it examines what Burckhardt's 'discovery of the individual' really meant for the construction of self in the late medieval and early modern context."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12284305.
- catalog coverage "Europe Civilization.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In this collection the concept of the Renaissance is interrogated through the work of scholars who have supported or queried the ideas formulated in Jacob Burckhardt's classic study The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, or developed alternative interpretations." "The Reader addresses the themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture among different social orders and between men and women. And it examines what Burckhardt's 'discovery of the individual' really meant for the construction of self in the late medieval and early modern context."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The impact of humanism : From Burckhardt to Greenblatt: new historicisms and old / Richard Danson Brown -- Inventing sincerity, refashioning prudence : the discovery of the individual in Renaissance Europe / John Martin -- The significance of "civic humanism" in the interpretation of the Italian Renaissance / Albert Rabil, Jr. -- The emergence of print culture in the West : "defining the initial shift" / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein -- Learned culture and popular culture in Renaissance Italy / Peter Burke -- The transformation of platonic love in the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye --Valla's De voluptate ac de vero bono (Of the true and false good) and Erasmus' Stultitiae laus (In praise of folly) : renewing Christian ethics / Letizia Panizza -- Machiavelli's political philosophy in The Prince / Maureen Ramsay.".
- catalog description "2. Courts, patrons and poets: Sight, sound and ceremony in the chapel of Galeazzo Maria Sforza / Evelyn S. Welch -- Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy / Michael Baxandall -- Art as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- Style / Meyer Schapiro -- The diffusion of the Italian Renaissance style in western European art / Earl Rosenthal -- The foreign kings of Hungary / C.A. Macartney -- Physical conditions of the London stage / Andrew Gurr -- The merchants and the Jew of Venice : wealth's communion and an intruder / C.L. Barber -- Jessica's monkey; or The Goodwins / Ruth Nevo.".
- catalog description "3. Challenges to authority: Art or idol? religious sculpture / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Progress towards reform / Susan Karant-Nunn -- Luther myth : a popular historiography of the reformer / Robert W. Scribner -- Excluding the Reformation / Henry Kamen -- Lazarillo de Tormes : Erasmian satire or Protestant reform? / Thomas Hanrahan -- Renaissance poverty and Lazarillo's family : the birth of the picaresque genre / Javier Herrero -- Lazarillo de Tormes : the case of the purloined letter / Peter N. Dunn -- Luther and Vesalius / Andrew Cunningham -- The old and the new / Nancy G. Siraisi --Wittenberg anatomy / Vivian Nutton -- Paracelsus : medicine as popular protest / Charles Webster -- The philosophy, medicine and theology of Paracelsus / Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke -- Galileo's early career ; Galileo and the medicean stars / Mario Biagioli -- Witchcraft and magic in Renaissance Italy : Gianfrancesco Pico and his Strix / Peter Burke -- Manifold impieties : the social setting / Anthony Harris -- Instrument of mischief : tragi-comedy in The witch of Edmonton / Anthony Harris -- Witchcraft and the threat of the familiar / Frances E. Dolan.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 374 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300082185 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0300082231 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Open University,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Civilization.".
- catalog subject "CB361 .R386 2000X".
- catalog subject "Humanism.".
- catalog subject "Renaissance.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The impact of humanism : From Burckhardt to Greenblatt: new historicisms and old / Richard Danson Brown -- Inventing sincerity, refashioning prudence : the discovery of the individual in Renaissance Europe / John Martin -- The significance of "civic humanism" in the interpretation of the Italian Renaissance / Albert Rabil, Jr. -- The emergence of print culture in the West : "defining the initial shift" / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein -- Learned culture and popular culture in Renaissance Italy / Peter Burke -- The transformation of platonic love in the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye --Valla's De voluptate ac de vero bono (Of the true and false good) and Erasmus' Stultitiae laus (In praise of folly) : renewing Christian ethics / Letizia Panizza -- Machiavelli's political philosophy in The Prince / Maureen Ramsay.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. Courts, patrons and poets: Sight, sound and ceremony in the chapel of Galeazzo Maria Sforza / Evelyn S. Welch -- Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy / Michael Baxandall -- Art as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- Style / Meyer Schapiro -- The diffusion of the Italian Renaissance style in western European art / Earl Rosenthal -- The foreign kings of Hungary / C.A. Macartney -- Physical conditions of the London stage / Andrew Gurr -- The merchants and the Jew of Venice : wealth's communion and an intruder / C.L. Barber -- Jessica's monkey; or The Goodwins / Ruth Nevo.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. Challenges to authority: Art or idol? religious sculpture / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Progress towards reform / Susan Karant-Nunn -- Luther myth : a popular historiography of the reformer / Robert W. Scribner -- Excluding the Reformation / Henry Kamen -- Lazarillo de Tormes : Erasmian satire or Protestant reform? / Thomas Hanrahan -- Renaissance poverty and Lazarillo's family : the birth of the picaresque genre / Javier Herrero -- Lazarillo de Tormes : the case of the purloined letter / Peter N. Dunn -- Luther and Vesalius / Andrew Cunningham -- The old and the new / Nancy G. Siraisi --Wittenberg anatomy / Vivian Nutton -- Paracelsus : medicine as popular protest / Charles Webster -- The philosophy, medicine and theology of Paracelsus / Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke -- Galileo's early career ; Galileo and the medicean stars / Mario Biagioli -- Witchcraft and magic in Renaissance Italy : Gianfrancesco Pico and his Strix / Peter Burke -- Manifold impieties : the social setting / Anthony Harris -- Instrument of mischief : tragi-comedy in The witch of Edmonton / Anthony Harris -- Witchcraft and the threat of the familiar / Frances E. Dolan.".
- catalog title "The Renaissance in Europe : a reader / edited by Keith Whitlock.".
- catalog type "text".