The Renaissance in Italy
Subtitle: A Social And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 22, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9780521719384
Description: This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.--
Notes: Source title: The Renaissance in Italy: A Social And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento