Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe. Volume 4 Forging European Identities 1400-1700

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.