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The Renaissance : Italy and abroad / edited by John Jeffries Martin.

Contributor(s): Martin, John Jeffries 1951-.
Series: Rewriting histories. Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: xxiii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415260620 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0415260639 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Renaissance -- Italy | RenaissanceDDC classification: 945/.05
Contents:
Introduction : the Renaissance : between myth and history / John Jeffries Martin -- pt. 1. The Renaissance paradigm in crisis -- The Renaissance and the drama of western history / William James Bouwsma -- pt. 2. Politics, language, and power -- The dialogue of power in Florentine politics / John M. Najemy -- The "Baron thesis" / James Hankins -- Geographies of power : the territorial state in early modern Italy / Elena Fasano Guarini -- pt. 3. Individualism, identity, and gender -- Burckhardt revisited from social history / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. -- Psychoanalysis and Renaissance culture / Stephen Greenblatt -- Gender and sexual culture in Renaissance Italy / Michael Rocke -- The single self : feminist thought and the marriage market in early modern Venice / Virginia Cox -- pt. 4. Art, science, and humanism -- Historia and Istoria : Alberti's terminology in context / Anthony Grafton -- The criminal and the saintly body : autopsy and dissection in Renaissance Italy / Katharine Park -- Friendship portrayed : a new account of Utopia / David Wootton -- pt. 5. Religion : tradition and innovation -- The virgin on the street corner : the place of the sacred in Italian cities / Edward Muir -- "Civilized religion" : from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-reformation / Euan Cameron.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.

Introduction : the Renaissance : between myth and history / John Jeffries Martin -- pt. 1. The Renaissance paradigm in crisis -- The Renaissance and the drama of western history / William James Bouwsma -- pt. 2. Politics, language, and power -- The dialogue of power in Florentine politics / John M. Najemy -- The "Baron thesis" / James Hankins -- Geographies of power : the territorial state in early modern Italy / Elena Fasano Guarini -- pt. 3. Individualism, identity, and gender -- Burckhardt revisited from social history / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. -- Psychoanalysis and Renaissance culture / Stephen Greenblatt -- Gender and sexual culture in Renaissance Italy / Michael Rocke -- The single self : feminist thought and the marriage market in early modern Venice / Virginia Cox -- pt. 4. Art, science, and humanism -- Historia and Istoria : Alberti's terminology in context / Anthony Grafton -- The criminal and the saintly body : autopsy and dissection in Renaissance Italy / Katharine Park -- Friendship portrayed : a new account of Utopia / David Wootton -- pt. 5. Religion : tradition and innovation -- The virgin on the street corner : the place of the sacred in Italian cities / Edward Muir -- "Civilized religion" : from Renaissance to Reformation and Counter-reformation / Euan Cameron.

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