Renaissance History, Art and Culture – serie
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Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy
Av Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Andrea Zorzi
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Emotions depend on language, cultural practices, expectation and moral beliefs. Hate, fear, cruelty and love are always turning history into the history of passion and lust, because emotional life is always ready to overflow intellectual life. This fascinating study of emotion in Renaissance Italy …
Italian Courts and European Culture
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, princely courts dominated the Italian political scene. These courts were effervescent centers of cultural production. As such, they became a model for European monarchies who imported Italian courtly forma del vivere (‘style of life’) to legitimize …
Johann Wier
Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed. It was the physician and scholar Johann Wier (1515-1588) who challenged the dominant idea. For his defense of witches, more than three centuries later, Sigmund Freud chose to put …
Masaniello
The Life and Afterlife of a Neapolitan Revolutionary
Häftad, 2025
747 kr
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This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello. La sua vita e il mito in Europa (Rome, 2007), the first historical biography of the leader of the revolt that broke out in Naples in 1647–48. Initially, its main objectives were the cancellation of the many taxes introduced in previous decades …
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
Friends of Friends in the Kingdom of Hungary
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. Analyzing the social network of these politicians, merchants, artisans, royal officers, dignitaries of the Church, and …
Pope Paul III and the Cultural Politics of Reform
1534-1549
Av Bryan Cussen
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church. During his fifteen-year reign, though, Paul's engagement with reform was complex and contentious. A work of cultural history, this book explores how cultural narratives of …
Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer
Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga came of age during a time of intense change in sixteenth-century Italy: The Italian Wars (1494–1559). The first and third-born sons of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga spent their formative years at the courts of Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain, where, …
Shadow Agents of Renaissance War
Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond
Av Stephen Bowd, Sarah Cockram m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Who were the shadow agents of Renaissance war? In this pioneering collection of essays scholars use new archival evidence and other sources, including literature, artworks, and other non-textual material, to uncover those men, women, children and other animals who sustained war by means of their …
Transregional Lordship and the Italian Renaissance
René de Challant, 1504-1565
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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René de Challant, whose holdings ranged from northwestern Italy to the Alps and over the mountains into what is today western Switzerland and eastern France, was an Italian and transregional dynast. The spatially dispersed kind of lordship that he practiced and his lifetime of service to the house …
Warfare and Politics
Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice
Av Humfrey Butters, Gabriele Neher
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance. The essays cover a remarkably broad geographical and topical range as they …
Contexts and Connections of Italian Elements in Shakespeare’s Plays
Inbunden, 2026
2839 kr
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Contexts and Connections of Italian Elements in Shakespeare’s Plays examines the historical and cultural connections between Italy, especially Venice, and England from the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries, revealing how these connections shaped Shakespeare’s plays and contributed to the …
Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer
Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond
Inbunden, 2024
2197 kr
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This book uses epistolary, literary, and material sources to argue that the boyhood and adult experiences of Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga are illustrative of wider strategies adopted by elite Italians to respond to conflict and crisis in a global age.
Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy
Political Life, Factional Conflicts and Religious Turmoil
Inbunden, 2025
2103 kr
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Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-15th century. This book looks at how political life worked in a time of great instability, seeking to answer a straightforward—but not easy—question: how did people face and react to political and religious uncertainty?
Emotions, Passions, and Power in Renaissance Italy
Av Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Andrea Zorzi
Inbunden, 2015
2197 kr
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This volume examines, among others, the emotional language of the court, around public execution, religious practices and during outbreaks of disease.
Warfare and Politics
Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice
Av Humfrey Butters, Gabriele Neher
Inbunden, 2019
2197 kr
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This volume brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance.
Cleopatra in Italian and English Renaissance Drama
Inbunden, 2019
2336 kr
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This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare. It shows how each reading of the story of Cleopatra is unique to and expressive of the culture which produced it, even as …
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
Friends of Friends in the Kingdom of Hungary
Inbunden, 2018
2336 kr
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The book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg.
Johann Wier
Debating the Devil and Witches in Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed.
Shadow Agents of Renaissance War
Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond
Av Stephen Bowd, Sarah Cockram m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2197 kr
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This volume engages with a range of important debates including: the relationship between war and state formation; the 'military revolution' or transformation of early modern military force; the nature of human and non-human agency; gender and war; civilian protection and expulsion; and espionage …
Masaniello
The Life and Afterlife of a Neapolitan Revolutionary
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello. La sua vita e il mito in Europa (Rome, 2007), the first historical biography of the leader of the revolt that broke out in Naples in 1647-48.
Pope Paul III and the Cultural Politics of Reform
1534-1549
Av Bryan Cussen
Inbunden, 2020
2133 kr
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When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church. During his fifteen-year reign, though, Paul's engagement with reform was complex and contentious. This study makes a provocative case that Paul called the Council of Trent …
Transregional Lordship and the Italian Renaissance
René de Challant, 1504-1565
Inbunden, 2020
2264 kr
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A spatially inflected analysis of René de Challant's life brings to light several themes related to transregional lordship that have been obscured due to the traditional tendencies of Renaissance studies.
Italian Courts and European Culture
Inbunden, 2022
2197 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the Italian geo-political map focused on courts (thirteenth - seventeenth centuries) and analyses the homogeneity of political forms and of the Italian Christian-Classicist culture.
Uncertain World of Renaissance Geneva and Savoy
Political Life, Factional Conflicts and Religious Turmoil
Häftad, 2026
694 kr
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Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, running from the North Sea to the Mediterranean along the border between France and the Empire. In Geneva, …
