The Renaissance in Europe
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, and Roberta Wood.
Contributors: Elmer, Peter.; Webb, Nick, 1959-; Wood, Roberta.
Publisher: Yale University Press; The Open University
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Renaissance; Europe -- Civilization
Description: "The Anthology presents a series of carefully selected primary sources across a wide range of disciplines, ordered thematically and reflecting the interests of scholars in a variety of fields of Renaissance studies. There are sections on humanism and its impact on philosophy and politics; Renaissance court culture, with particular emphasis on the courts of northern Italy and the kingdom of Hungary; poetry and drama in Renaissance Britain; the Reformation; and science, magic and witchcraft.

While some of the extracts are short and familiar, others appear here, in translation, for the first time, including, for example, an early sixteenth-century demonology by the Italian humanist Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. The volume is illustrated throughout and each extract is introduced by a brief headnote describing the author and the source."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.