A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm 1 Guido Rumiero PART I THE COURSE of RENAISSANCEE EVENTS 21 1 The Italian Renaissance 23 Gene Brucker 2 The European Renaissance 39 Randolph Starn 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East 55 Linda T. Darling 4 The Renaissance World from the West 70 Matthew Restall 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance 88 Peter Burke PART 11 THE WORLDS AND WAYS OF POWER 105 6 Governments and Bureaucracies 107 Edward Muir 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe 124 James R. Farr 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model 139 Gregory Hanlon 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 156 Robert Muchembled 10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World 173 Joanne M. Feeraro 11 Gender 188 Elissa B. Weaver 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism 208 John Jeffiies Martin PART I11 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WORLDS 225 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes 227 Matthew Ester 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes 243 James S. Amelang 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy 259 Karl Appuhn 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy 279 John A. Marino PART IV CULTURAL WORLDS 297 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World 299 David C. Gentilcore 18 High Culture 316 Ingrid D. Rowland 19 Religious Cultures 333 R. Po-chia Hsia 20 Art 349 Loren Partridge 21 Literature 366 James Grantham Turner 22 Political Ideas 384 John M. Najemy 23 The Scientific Renaissance 403 William Eamon PART V ANTI-WORLDS 425 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger 427 Mary Lindemann 25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age 444 Linda Woodbridge 26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World 460 Thomas F. Arnold 27 Witchcraft and Magic 475 Guido Ruggiero 28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance 491 Ian Frederick Moulton Consolidated Bibliography 506 Index 543