The Renaissance by A Brown
Alison Brown's study of the Renaissance considers the influence of classical ideas, on Florence in particular, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The Renaissance
The Renaissance
Summary
A critical assessment of the Renaissance as a coherent and distinctive movement in its own right. Its role in the transition from medieval to early modern society is discussed, and the growing influence of classical ideas, in particular on the lives of urban elites in Italy and Europe.
The Renaissance Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 Introduction: the problem of interpretation; the concept of revival; earlier renaissances, 800-1300. Part 2 The background of the Renaissance: Italian communes and city-states c1300; Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374; Florence as home of the Renaissance. Part 3 The flowering of the Renaissance movement: the passion for books; new schools; republican politics; history and archaeology; art, architecture and music; humanism and the Renaissance image of man. Part 4 Diffusion: patrons and patronage in Italy; the Renaissance outside Italy; the role of printing. Part 5 Assessment: the Renaissance - revolution or regression? Part 6: documents.
Additional information
GOR011997304
9780582353831
0582353831
The Renaissance by A Brown
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
1988-10-31
136
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