The European Renaissance 1400-1600
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2014
408 pages
978-1-317-88646-4 (ISBN)
Description
With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal attention to the strangeness and often unresolved tensions that lay beneath the surface of that culture.Insisting on a European rather than purely Italian viewpoint, he embraces Renaissance thinking and culture in all its diversity: from Northern thinkers such as Cusanus, Luther and Calvin, to the painting of Van der Weyden and El Greco, and the music of the Flemish musicians, Josquin des Prez and Orlando Lassus. Special attention is also paid to the unique contribution made by Margueritte of Navarre to the development of humanist culture. The book concludes with a study of Shakespeare in which his plays are viewed as a searching critique of some of the main principles of Renaissance culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
20,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-88646-4 (9781317886464)
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Content
INTRODUCTION: RENAISSANCE QUESTIONS; Part 1 THOUGHT AND CONTEXT; Chapter 1 CITIES, SPACES AND INSTITUTIONS; Chapter 2 EDUCATION, IMITATION AND CREATION; Chapter 3 REFORMATION AND THE RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUAL; Chapter 4 SCIENCE, ART AND LANGUAGE: A CONCLUSION TO Part ONE; Part 2 THE ARTS; Chapter 5 THE FIGURATIVE ARTS; Chapter 6 LYRIC, EPIC AND PASTORAL; Chapter 7 MUSIC; Chapter 8 PROSE FXCTXON AND THEATRE;
