William Caferro

Contesting the Renaissance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. * An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance * Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance * Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith * Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781405123693
• ISBN-10: 1405123699
• Artikelnr.: 21689483

Autorenporträt

William Caferro is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His previous publications include Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena (1998), and The Spinelli: Merchants, Patrons and Bankers in Renaissance Florence (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Renaissance Question.
2. Individualism. Who was the Renaissance Man?
3. Gender. Who was the Renaissance Woman?
4. Humanism. Renovation or Innovation?
5. Economy. Hard Times or Prosperity?
6. Politics. The Emergence of the Modern State?
7. Faith and Science. Religious or Rational?

Rezensionen

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 August 2011)
"An admirably wide-ranging and fair-minded survey of a vast body ofliterature."
--Christine Shaw, Swansea University

"After decades of quarrels and controversy over the meaning ofthe historical Renaissance in the modern world, William Caferroreminds us why all the fighting has mattered--and how much fun ithas been for the participants and spectators."
--William J. Connell, Seton Hall University