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The Society of Renaissance Florence

A Documentary Study

By: Renaissance Society of America

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The Society of Renaissance Florence

A Documentary Study

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First published in 1971, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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The Society of Renaissance Florence

A Documentary Study

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A Documentary Study

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First published in 1971, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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The Italian Renaissance

By: Renaissance Society of America

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The Italian Renaissance

By: Renaissance Society of America

Offers a broad sampling of humanist work by educators, statesmen, philosophers, churchmen and courtiers translated into English.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802077358

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La Cena de Le Ceneri

By: Giordano Bruno,Renaissance Society of America

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La Cena de Le Ceneri

By: Giordano Bruno,Renaissance Society of America

Giordano Bruno was an itinerant Italian friar who was burned at the stake in 1600 for heresies, which included his rejection of the Ptolemaic cosmology. Of his important writings, 'La Cena de le ceneri' was one of the first works in which Copernican theory had impact outside the sphere of the natural sciences. Arguing for the physical reality of the infinite universe with no centre, Bruno sought to prove that each man is every man, that conflict would be resolved if all men accepted the unifying potential of his hermetic religion. Using this radical cosmology, Bruno sought to heal the secular and religious wounds of sixteenth-century Europe.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802074693

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A Renaissance of Conflicts

Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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A Renaissance of Conflicts

Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

The essays in this collection explore conflict and continuity across the spectrum of political, legal, and spiritual traditions from late medieval Umbria and Tuscany to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, Rome, and Castile. They point to a shared tradition of dispute and resolution in both ecclesiastical/spiritual and state/secular matters, whether of private conscience or public policy. Continuity of ideals, problems, and modes of resolution suggest that breaks in legal, political, or religious ideals and behavior were not as frequent or sharp as historians have argued. These continuities emerge from common methodological approaches grounded in close, careful reading of key texts and their polyvalent terms. Whether those were the terms of civil or canon law, spirituality, or astrology, each author has had to grapple with multiple possibilities, contexts, customs, and practices that reveal the shifts and continuities in their possible meanings. -- Amazon.com.

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Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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0772720223

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9780772720221

More's Utopia

By: Dominic Baker-Smith,Renaissance Society of America

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More's Utopia

By: Dominic Baker-Smith,Renaissance Society of America

This study plac Utopia in the context of early sixteenth-century Europe and the intellectual preoccupations of More's own humanist circle, and clarifying those sources in classical and Christian political thought that provoked his writing.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802083765

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Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture

By: Debora K. Shuger,Renaissance Society of America

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Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance

Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture

By: Debora K. Shuger,Renaissance Society of America

By examining orthodox methods of thought in the Renaissance, the author tries to reconstruct a picture of the dominant culture of the period in England between 1580 and 1630.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802080472

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Venice

A Documentary History, 1450-1630

By: Renaissance Society of America

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Venice

A Documentary History, 1450-1630

By: Renaissance Society of America

This work presents important sources - many previously unpublished in any language, and almost none previously available in English - for the history of the city-state of Venice from its zenith to its decline.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802084249

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Jews in the Canary Islands

Being a Calendar of Jewish Cases Extracted from the Records of the Canariote Inquisition in the Collection of the Marquess of Bute

By: Catholic Church,Renaissance Society of America

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Jews in the Canary Islands

Being a Calendar of Jewish Cases Extracted from the Records of the Canariote Inquisition in the Collection of the Marquess of Bute

By: Catholic Church,Renaissance Society of America

In 1492, the Jews of Spain were given a choice: convert to Christianity or be expelled from Spain. Many chose to hide themselves as 'New Christians, ' or conversos, outwardly professing to be Christians while practicing their true faith in secret. In 1504, the Office of the Inquisition was set up in the remote Spanish holdings on the Canary Islands to seek out crypto-Jews, sorcerers, and other heretics. Jews in the Canary Islands is a calendar of Jewish cases brought before the Canariote Inquisition between 1499 and 1818, when the Inquisition was discontinued. First published in 1926, together with an introduction analysing the work of the Inquisition and explaining its relation to general Jewish history until 1928, this is a fascinating collection of records showing not only the workings of the Inquisition, but the lives of crypto-Jews during a time of fierce repression.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802084508

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On Assistance to the Poor

By: Juan Luis Vives,Renaissance Society of America

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On Assistance to the Poor

By: Juan Luis Vives,Renaissance Society of America

Sixteenth-century humanist Juan Luis Vives sought to find ways to alleviate the sufferings of the poor of Bruges, dealing with problems and presenting solutions that sound remarkably familiar to twentieth-century urban ears.

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0802082890

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Sins of the Flesh

Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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Sins of the Flesh

Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Few illnesses in the early modern period carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. In the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses of doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These ten essays gauge the impact of sexual disease on early modern society by exploring the ways in which European culture reacted to the presence of a new deadly sexual infection. Articles about scientific and medical responses analyze how physicians incorporated the disease within existing intellectual frameworks. Studies in literary and metaphoric responses examine how early modern writers put images of sexual infection and the diseased body to a range of rhetorical and political uses. Finally, essays about institutional and policing responses chronicle how authorities responded to the crisis and how these public health responses linked up with wider campaigns to police sexuality.

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Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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0772720290

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The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

The nineteenth century witnessed rapid economic and social developments, profound political and intellectual upheaval, and startling innovations in art and literature. As Europeans peered into an uncertain future, they drew upon the Renaissance for meaning, precedents, and identity. Many claimed to find inspiration or models in the Renaissance, but as we move across the continent's borders and through the century's decades, we find that the Renaissance was many different things to many different people. This collection brings together the work of sixteen authors who examine the many Renaissances conceived by European novelists and poets, artists and composers, architects and city planners, political theorists and politicians, businessmen and advertisers. The essays fall into three groups: "Aesthetic Recoveries of Strategic Pasts"; "The Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars"; and "Material Culture and Manufactured Memories.

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0772720193

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Pope.L

Showing Up to Withhold

By: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

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Pope.L

Showing Up to Withhold

By: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society’s pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display. Published to accompany his wonderfully inscrutable exhibition Forlesen at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold is simultaneously an artist’s book and a monograph. In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.

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022620023X

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9780226200231

Shopping in the Renaissance

Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600

By: Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch

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Shopping in the Renaissance

Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600

By: Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch

Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is in the 21st century. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis during the Renaissance period. Drawing on a detailed mixture of archival, literary and visual sources, she exposes the fears, anxieties and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace. Thereafter, Welch looks at the impact these attitudes had on the developing urban spaces of Renaissance cities, before turning to more transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions and lotteries. In the third section, she examines the consumers themselves, asking how the mental, verbal and visual images of the market shaped the business of buying and selling. Finally, the book explores two seemingly very different types of commodities - antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself.

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428

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Yale University Press

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0300107528

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9780300107524

A History of the Renaissance Society

The First Seventy-five Years

By: University of Chicago. Renaissance Society

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A History of the Renaissance Society

The First Seventy-five Years

By: University of Chicago. Renaissance Society

Includes bibliography of catalogs issued by the Society (p. 182-186).

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Renaissance Society

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0941548287

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