Renaissance Florence : a social history / edited by Roger J. Crum, John T. Paoletti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crum, Roger J.

Paoletti, John T.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florence (Italy)--Civilization.

Florence (Italy).

Renaissance--Italy--Florence.

Renaissance.

Italy--Florence.

Physical Description:

xvii, 674 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: Florence - The Dynamics of Space in a Renaissance City / Roger J. Crum, John T. Paoletti 1

The Theater of Florence

1 Florentine Politics and Urban Spaces / John M. Najemy 19

2 Theaters of Everyday Life / Sharon T. Strocchia 55

The Public Realm

3 The Florentine Piazza della Signoria as Practiced Place / Stephen J. Milner 83

4 Structuring Communal History through Repeated Metaphors of Rule / Sarah Blake McHam 104

5 Corporate Beneficence and Historical Narratives of Communal Well-Being / Philip Gavitt 138

6 The Spaces of Plebeian Ritual and the Boundaries of Transgression / David Rosenthal 161

7 Ritual Trading at the Florentine Wool-Cloth Botteghe / Adrienne Atwell 182

Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors

8 Neighborhood as Microcosm / Nicholas Eckstein 219

9 The Palace and Villa as Spaces of Patrician Self-Definition / Michael Lingohr 240

10 "...Full of People of Every Sort": The Domestic Interior / Roger J. Crum, John T. Paoletti 273

Men and Women

11 Mean Streets, Familiar Streets, or The Fat Woodcarver and the Masculine Spaces of Renaissance Florence / Guido Ruggiero 295

12 Did Women Have a Space? / Natalie Tomas 311

The Spaces of the Spiritual

13 Sacred Place and Liturgical Space: Florence's Renaissance Churches / Robert W. Gaston 331

14 Memorial Chapels in Churches: The Privatization and Transformation of Sacred Spaces / Jonathan Katz Nelson 353

15 The Aural Space of the Sacred in Renaissance Florence / Peter F. Howard 376

16 Identity and Alliance: Urban Presence, Spatial Privilege, and Florentine Renaissance Convents / Saundra Weddle 394

Across Space and Time

17 The Workshop as the Space of Collaborative Artistic Production / Anabel Thomas 415

18 The Replicated Image in Florence, 1300-1600 / Patricia Emison 431

19 From the Workshop to the Academy: The Emergence of the Artist in Renaissance Florence / Andrea Bolland 454.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-647) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521846935

OCLC:

60651170

Publisher Number:

9780521846936

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