The Renaissance World

John Jeffries Martin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780415332590
• eBook ISBN: 9781136894114
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia dell'Europa rinascimentale

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.

Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and technological forces alongside a cluster of interrelated practices including painting, sculpture, humanism and science, in which the elites engaged.

Unique in its balance of emphasis on elite and popular culture, on humanism and society, and on women as well as men, The Renaissance World grapples with issues as diverse as Renaissance patronage and the development of the slave trade.

Beginning with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ending with its lasting influence, this book is an invaluable read, which students and scholars of history and the Renaissance will dip into again and again.

Index

Note: page references in italics indicate illustrations

academies 197

Accademia degli Elevati 487

Acosta, Christobal see Costa, Cristóvão da

Acosta, José de (1540–1600) 10–11, 166–88; on Indian society and culture 179–81; on language 174–5; on native religion 181–3, 184–5; on natural history 166–7, 183–4; on origins of native peoples 177–8; on writing systems 175–7; Natural and Moral History of the Indies 166–88; On Winning Salvation for the Indians 178

Actopan, convent of 124

Adriani, Marcello Virgilio 263

Africa 10, 126, 168; on maps 146, 147, 154; Portuguese and 118, 120, 132, 144; slave trade 119, 120, 321, 561, 635

Age of Religious War 369, 375–7, 378

Agramont, Jacme d’ 74

agriculture 89–90, 92, 143, 144, 193, 272, 273

Agustín, Antonio (1517–86) 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249–50, 251, 252, 255, 256–9

ahidnames 351, 352, 353, 356

Aix-en-Provence 115

Alamos de Barrientes, Baltasar 319

Alberti, Leandro 227

Alberti, Leon Battista (1404–72) 23, 35, 372, 550; on cities 105, 107; on fatherhood 383; illegitimacy 486; on perspective (in On Painting) 7, 8, 53–6, 57, 63; study of Roman buildings 180

Albrecht Hohenzollern, duke of Prussia 210–11

album amicorum 204

Alcalá, University of 250–1, 253, 254, 255, 322, 582, 594

alchemy 195, 424–5, 488

Aldus Manutius (Aldo Manuzio) (c.1450–1515) 193, 203, 244, 572

Aleksander Jagiełło, king of Poland 560

Alemán, Mateo (1547–1610 or 1620) 200

Aleppo 88, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Credits for illustrations
• INTRODUCTION
• I THREE PRELUDES
• II A WORLD IN MOTION
• III THE MOVEMENT OF IDEAS
• IV THE CIRCULATION OF POWER
• V MAKING IDENTITIES
• VI BELIEFS AND REFORMS
• VII A NEW ORDER OF KNOWLEDGE
• Index