Concentrating largely on the `middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy--artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers--this book focuses on new social subjects, new documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry and interdisciplinary…
Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy is a wonderful book: original, engaging, well-written and well-researched. An interdisciplinary volume, it will appeal to a broad range of scholars not only in the field of Renaissance studies, but also in the history of sexuality. Diane Wol…
This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to women as producers of visual and material culture in the Early Modern European courts, offering fresh insights into the careers of, among others, Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Luisa Roldán, and Diana…
European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventi…
À la Renaissance le développement de la philologie instaure la rénovation des savoirs philosophiques et théologiques, les grandes découvertes impliquent de nouvelles représentations du monde et de l'homme, les luttes religieuses déchirent l'Occident, cependant que s'affirment le…
