A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance

Folger bibliographic ID: 120499
Folger call number: CB367 .C65 2002
Folger holdings ID: 113752

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [506]-542) and index

Contents

The Italian Renaissance / Gene Brucker -- The European Renaissance / Randolph Starn -- The Renaissance and the Middle East / Linda T. Darling -- The Renaissance world from the West / Matthew Restall -- The historical geography of the Renaissance / Peter Burke -- Governments and Bureaucracies / Edward Muir -- Honor, law, and custom in Renaissance Europe / James R. Farr -- Violence and its control in the late Renaissance : an Italian model / Gregory Hanlon -- Manners, courts, and civility / Robert Muchembled -- Family and clan in the Renaissance world / Joanne M. Ferraro -- Gender / Elissa B. Weaver -- The myth of Renaissance individualism / John Jeffries Martin -- Social heirarchies : the upper classes / Matthew Vester -- Social heirarchies : the lower classes / James S. Amelang -- Tools for the development of the European economy / Karl Appuhn -- Economic encounters and the first stages of a world economy / John A. Marino -- The subcultures of the Renaissance world / David C. Gentilcore -- High culture / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Religious cultures / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Art / Loren Partridge -- Literature / James Grantham Turner -- Political ideas / John M. Najemy -- The scientific Renaissance / William Eamon -- Plague, disease, and hunger / Mary Lindemann -- Renaissance bogeymen : the necessary monsters of the age / Linda Woodbridge -- Violence and warfare in the Renaissance world / Thomas F. Arnold -- Witchcraft and magic / Guido Ruggiero -- The illicit worlds of the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton

Extended title: A companion to the worlds of the Renaissance / edited by Guido Ruggiero

Renaissance Power (Social sciences) Europe Italy

associated with: Ruggiero, Guido, 1944-