Cult Exchange Early Mod Europe v4

Cultural Exchange The Dynamic Give And Take Between Two Or More Cultures Has Become A Distinguishing Feature Of Modern Europe. This Was Already An Important Feature To The Elites Of The Fifteenth Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries And It Played A Central Role In Their Fashioning Of Self. The Cultures These Elites Exchanged And Often Integrated With Their Own Were Both Material And Immaterial; They Included Palaces City-Dwellings Paintings Sculptures Ceramics Dresses And Jewellery But Also Gestures Ways Of Sitting Standing And Walking And Dances. In This Innovative And Well-Illustrated 2007 Volume All This Lively Exchange Is Traced From Bruges Augsburg And Istanbul To Italy; From Italy To Paris Amsterdam Dresden Novgorod And Moscow; And Even From Brazil To Rouen. This Volume Which Reveals How A First European Identity Was Forged Will Appeal To Cultural And Art Historians As Well As Social And Cultural Anthropologists.