Urban life in the Renaissance / edited by Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F.E. Weissman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmerman, Susan, 1939-

Weissman, Ronald F. E.

University of Maryland, College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Renaissance--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Renaissance.

City and town life--Europe--History--Congresses.

City and town life.

Europe.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [1989]

Contents:

Social stratification in Renaissance urban planning / James S. Ackerman and Myra Nan Rosenfeld

The construction of Pienza (1459-1464) and the consequences of Renovatio / Nicholas Adams

Houses divided / Barbara Diefendorf

Leisure and sociability / Roger Chartier

Trickery, gender, and power / Werner L. Gundersheimer

Minstrels and their repertory in fifteenth-century France / Howard Mayer Brown

History, politics, and the portrait of a city / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.

Celebrating authority in Bristol, 1475-1640 / David Harris Sacks

The palio of Siena / Sydel Silverman

"Thou idol ceremony" / Richard C. McCoy

The importance of being ambiguous / Ronald F.E. Weissman

Ceremonial play and parody in the Renaissance / Thomas M. Greene.

Notes:

Selected papers delivered at two symposia sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, College Park: Urban life in the Renaissance (3-4 March, 1983) and Forms of play in the early modern period (22-23 March, 1984).

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0874133238

OCLC:

17621258