The Renaissance World

<p>With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful <em>Routledge Worlds</em> series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.</p><p>Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged.</p><p>Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, <em>The Renaissance World</em> grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade.</p><p>Beginning with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ending with its lasting influence, this book is an invaluable read, which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again.</p> <p><strong>Introduction The Renaissance: A World in Motion</strong><em> </em><strong>Part 1: Three Preludes</strong> 1. Rome at the Center of a Civilization<em> </em>2. Framing and Mirroring the World<em> </em>3. The Black Death, Tragedy, and Transformation<em> </em><strong>Part 2: A World in Motion</strong> 4. The Manufacture and Movement of Goods<em> </em>5. Cities, Towns, and New Forms of Culture<em> </em>6. European Expansion and a New Order of Knowledge<em> </em>7. The Invention of Europe<em> </em>8. Jose de Acosta: Renaissance historiography and New World humanity<em> </em><strong>Part 3: The Movement of Ideas</strong> 9. The Circulation of Knowledge<em> </em>10. Virgil and Homer in Poland<em> </em>11. Montaigne in Italy<em> </em>12. 'Shared Studies Foster Friendship': Humanism and History in Spain<em> </em>13. Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More: Parallel Lives<em> </em><strong>Part 4: The Circulation of Power</strong> 14. Courts, Art, and Power<em> </em>15. An Imperial Renaissance<em> </em>16. Renaissance Triumphalism in Art<em> </em>17. The Ottoman Empire<em> </em>18. Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance<em> </em>19. Mothers and Children<em> </em>20. The Renaissance Goes Up in Smoke<em> </em><strong>Part 5: Making Identities</strong> 21. Human Exceptionalism<em> </em>22. Worthy of Faith? Authors and Readers in Early Modernity<em> </em>23. The Renaissance Portrait: From Resemblance to Representation<em> </em>24. Objects and Identity: Antonio de’Medici and the Casino at San Marco in Florence<em> </em>25. Food: Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption<em> </em>26. Shakespeare’s Dream of Retirement<em> </em><strong>Part 6: Beliefs and Reforms</strong> 27. Speaking Books, Moving Images<em> </em>28. Religious Minorities<em> </em>29. Humanism and the Dream of Christian Unity<em> </em>30. Christian Reform and its Discontents<em> </em>31. A Tale of Two Tribunals<em> </em>32. Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil<em> </em>33. Toward a Sacramental Poetics<em> </em><strong>Part 7: A New Order of Knowledge</strong> 34. The Sun at the Center of the World</p>