Renaissance Studies Special Issues – serie

Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English protagonists in the Renaissance era. Examines European travel in Asia from a variety of perspectives.Presents new research by international scholars.Establishes the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration in the early modern period.

This revealing volume sheds new light on the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland. A revealing look at the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.Written by leading scholars in the field.Covers a wide range of topics, such as the printing press and book trade in Reformation Scotland, and the debate between the "old" and the "new" in Welsh poetry.Shows that the Celtic countries were an integral part of the wider European Renaissance.Demonstrates how Celtic writers, scholars and patrons contributed to the cultural developments of the period.

Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the ‘social lives’ of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes’ jewellery, to miraculous painted images. Demonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths of their creators and patrons. Contains a series of original contributions by young scholars, representing a broad range of approaches.

Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena. Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common theme. Provides specific case studies and useful comparisons to well-known monographic studies of ritual in Florence and Venice. Concentrates on a single city to emphasize the important function of public rituals to life during the early modern period. Looks at both local ritual life and the ways it was presented to and viewed by those outside the city.

This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance. Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiquesExpands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and realityExamines under-studied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offers new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memoryIncludes a wide range of primary sources from visual and material evidence to archival documents

This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of different backgrounds who are re-visiting the field from new perspectives and with the support of innovative questions and unexplored sourcesExplores crucial areas of intersection between the territory of medicine and that of law, politics, religion, art and material culture and highlights the connections between these apparently separate fieldsChallenges our understanding of what we regard as medical activities, medical identities, spaces and objectsAddresses the study of medical careers, medical identities and spaces where medical activities were performed e.g. apothecary shops, courtrooms, convents and museums

Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment. A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden historyEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environmentThe book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human's place within itContributors come from a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural SocietyReflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been assisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies and environmental criticismRichly illustrated throughout