Renaissance now! : the value of the Renaissance past in contemporary culture / edited by Brendan Dooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dooley, Brendan.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

x, 370 pages

Place of Publication:

Bern : Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, 2014.

Summary:

This volume directs a transdisciplinary gaze on the field of Renaissance Studies as currently practised in Europe, North America and beyond. The concept of the Renaissance as applied to a particular time and place is still regarded as being of central importance to the history of thought and culture. The essays collected here raise the question of the contemporary relevance of the Renaissance. What is the significance of doing Renaissance Studies now, not only in terms of the field per se, but in terms of what the field has to say to contemporary society? In the past, the field of Renaissance Studies has drawn themes and orientations from particular concerns of the moment, without losing its rigorous focus, and has given back crucial insights to those studying it. Could the same be said today? To facilitate a multifaceted answer, this book attempts to cover some of the principal areas of this interdisciplinary field within the humanities and social sciences. Contributors include specialists in history, languages and literatures, the history of science, cultural studies, art history, philosophy, sociology and politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

The drowning man in Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina / Sheila Barker

Osiris and the end of the Renaissance / Nicola Gardini

Renaissance economies : markets, tastes, representations / Heinrich Lang

Making Renaissance humanism popular in the fifteenth-century Empire : the studia humanitatis at the University of Ingolstadt / Maximilian Schuh

The two Adamastores : diversity and complexity in Camoes's Lusiads / Thomas F. Earle

Renaissance que voicy : Torque in a tower (Reading Montaigne, Essais, III, iii) / Tom Conley

Fashioning service in a Renaissance state : the official journals of the Elizabethan viceroys in Ireland / David Edwards

Cervantes and Renaissance : a chapter in the history of Hispanic studies / Jose Montero Reguera

The map you cannot see : Paradise lost and the poetics of navigation / Chris Barrett

Keep this secret! Renaissance knowledge between freedom and restraint / Brendan Dooley

Popular atheism and unbelief : a seventeenth-century Venetian point of view / Federico Barbierato

The raw and the cooked : the Renaissance as cultural trope in times of crisis / Paul R. Wright

The history of 'scientific method' (methodus scientifica) in the early modern period and its relevance for school-level and university-level instruction in our time / Joseph S. Freedman

Digital Renaissance / Brendan Dooley.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9783034307901

303430790X

OCLC:

882190728

Publisher Number:

99963250849